Angular: How to get component dependancy via console?

Question

I put focus on component element in dev tools and can do following:

 ng.probe($0)

to get the special object "DebugElement". Now we can get its injector:

 ng.probe($0).injector

now I would like to get a dependancy that is defined on this component. Dependancy is defined like a class, so I should do something like so:

ng.probe($0).injector.get(MyService)

BUT! Service is not defined in console scope. If I make it a string:

 ng.probe($0).injector.get('MyService')

obviously it also does not work.

I'm trying to do reverse engineering on ReflectiveInjector.get, but no luck for now. Any ideas?

Answer 1

We have to pass token to injector.get method as it was declared. We can't use string if we declared class as token.

Angular keeps providers declared within component in ngfactory Plunker

function View_App_Host_0(_l) {
  return jit_viewDef0(0,[(_l()(),jit_elementDef1(0,null,null,2,'my-app',[],null,null,
      null,jit_View_App_02,jit__object_Object_3)),jit_providerDef4(4608,null,jit_MyService5,
      jit_MyService5,[]),jit_directiveDef6(49152,null,0,jit_App7,[],null,null)],null,
      null);
}

And it uses elementInjector to get dependency.

DebugElement gets information about tokens provided to current node

get providerTokens(): any[] {
  const tokens: any[] = [];
  if (this.elDef) {
    for (let i = this.elDef.index + 1; i <= this.elDef.index + this.elDef.childCount; i++) {
      const childDef = this.elView.def.nodes[i];
      if (childDef.flags & NodeFlags.CatProvider) {
        tokens.push(childDef.provider !.token);
      }
      i += childDef.childCount;
    }
  }
  return tokens;
}

After we declared provider within providers array of component metadata the token becomes available in providerTokens array.

So we can get dependency by writing

ng.probe($0).injector.get(ng.probe($0).providerTokens
    .find(x => x.name === 'MyService'))

See also

• Trigger Angular change detection from console