Allow opening modal via class reference

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Current behavior To open a modal you have to pass an id of existing instance of component or a brand new instance of a component.

Expected behavior Allow to create a modal like this:

dialogService.open(UserProfileComponent);

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

The current problem is that I define modals per component, but I want to define per application. For example: If I have a routing component A, which defined a modal. Now If I go to route B I can no longer open the modal, becuase its instance had already been gone before entering a new route.

[maximelafarie]

It will be finally released today as 7.2.0 🎉🚀 Cheers! 🖖

[maximelafarie]

Hi @Humberd and @benshabatnoam!

As it’s a well asked feature, we added it to our “May Milestone”. This new feature will be available soon and will be released as a minor version.

@marco10024 is in charge of this feature.