Getting the context of the template inside of which my component has been rendered

🚀 feature request

Relevant Package

@angular/core

Description

So i posted a question about this on StackOverflow some time ago and since until now i had 0 question/comments and had to came up with a pretty ugly hack i think it’s time to bring this to your attention.

Without repeating everything i’ve already said in that question, my request is if we can please have a non hacky way to retrieve the context of the template inside of which a component has been rendered

Describe the solution you’d like

The ViewEngine solution to this problem actually sounds nice:

(<any>this._viewContainer)._view.context

Can we please have this on Ivy also?

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Ugly Alternative 1: (<any>this._viewContainer)._hostView.debug.context Ugly Alternative 2: (<any>this._viewContainer)._hostView.find(t => t && !!t.$implicit)

[pkozlowski-opensource]

@EmaGht we’ve reviewed this issue during the team’s triage meeting and decided that this is not something we want to implement. There are 3 explicit ways of passing info to a component:

• inputs
• content
• DI

We don’t want to add another way that would be implicit.

[pauldraper]

simply create a custom injector when you instantiate the template

AFAIK you cannot use a custom injector when creating a view from a template.