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An iterable live list of components in the Light DOM.
Injectable Objects that contains a live list of child directives in the light DOM of a directive.
The directives are kept in depth-first pre-order traversal of the DOM.
The `QueryList` is iterable, therefore it can be used in both javascript code with `for..of` loop as well as in
template with `*for="of"` viewport.
NOTE: In the future this class will implement an `Observable` interface. For now it uses a plain list of observable
callbacks.
# Example:
Assume that `<tabs>` component would like to get a list its children which are `<pane>` components as shown in this
example:
```html
<tabs>
<pane title="Overview">...</pane>
<pane *for="o in objects" [title]="o.title">{{o.text}}</pane>
</tabs>
```
In the above example the list of `<tabs>` elements needs to get a list of `<pane>` elements so that it could render
tabs with the correct titles and in the correct order.
A possible solution would be for a `<pane>` to inject `<tabs>` component and then register itself with `<tabs>`
component's on `hydrate` and deregister on `dehydrate` event. While a reasonable approach, this would only work
partialy since `*for` could rearange the list of `<pane>` components which would not be reported to `<tabs>`
component and thus the list of `<pane>` componets would be out of sync with respect to the list of `<pane>` elements.
A prefferd solution is to inject a `QueryList` which is a live list of directives in the component`s light DOM.