Angular use modal dialog in canDeactivate Guard service for unsubmitted changes (Form dirty)

Question

In my Angular 4 application I have some components with a form, like this:

export class MyComponent implements OnInit, FormComponent {

  form: FormGroup;

  ngOnInit() {
    this.form = new FormGroup({...});
  }

they use a Guard service to prevent unsubmitted changes to get lost, so if the user tries to change route before it will ask for a confirmation:

import { CanDeactivate } from '@angular/router';
import { FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';

export interface FormComponent {
  form: FormGroup;
}

export class UnsavedChangesGuardService implements CanDeactivate<FormComponent> {
  canDeactivate(component: FormComponent) {
    if (component.form.dirty) {
      return confirm(
        'The form has not been submitted yet, do you really want to leave page?'
      );
    }

    return true;
  }
}

This is using a simple confirm(...) dialog and it works just fine.

However I would like to replace this simple dialog with a more fancy modal dialog, for example using the ngx-bootstrap Modal.

How can I achieve the same result using a modal instead?

Answer 1

I solved it using ngx-bootstrap Modals and RxJs Subjects.

First of all I created a Modal Component:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject';
import { BsModalRef } from 'ngx-bootstrap';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-confirm-leave',
  templateUrl: './confirm-leave.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./confirm-leave.component.scss']
})
export class ConfirmLeaveComponent {

  subject: Subject<boolean>;

  constructor(public bsModalRef: BsModalRef) { }

  action(value: boolean) {
    this.bsModalRef.hide();
    this.subject.next(value);
    this.subject.complete();
  }
}

here's the template:

<div class="modal-header modal-block-primary">
  <button type="button" class="close" (click)="bsModalRef.hide()">
    <span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span>
  </button>
  <h4 class="modal-title">Are you sure?</h4>
</div>
<div class="modal-body clearfix">
  <div class="modal-icon">
    <i class="fa fa-question-circle"></i>
  </div>
  <div class="modal-text">
    <p>The form has not been submitted yet, do you really want to leave page?</p>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
  <button class="btn btn-default" (click)="action(false)">No</button>
  <button class="btn btn-primary right" (click)="action(true)">Yes</button>
</div>

Then I modified my guard using a Subject, now it look like this:

import { CanDeactivate } from '@angular/router';
import { FormGroup } from '@angular/forms';
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject';
import { BsModalService } from 'ngx-bootstrap';

import { ConfirmLeaveComponent } from '.....';

export interface FormComponent {
  form: FormGroup;
}

@Injectable()
export class UnsavedChangesGuardService implements CanDeactivate<FormComponent> {

  constructor(private modalService: BsModalService) {}

  canDeactivate(component: FormComponent) {
    if (component.form.dirty) {
      const subject = new Subject<boolean>();

      const modal = this.modalService.show(ConfirmLeaveComponent, {'class': 'modal-dialog-primary'});
      modal.content.subject = subject;

      return subject.asObservable();
    }

    return true;
  }
}

In app.module.ts file go to the @NgModule section and add the ConfirmLeaveComponent component to entryComponents.

@NgModule({
  entryComponents: [
    ConfirmLeaveComponent,
  ]
})