HttpClient is an evolution of the existing Angular HTTP API, which exists
alongside of it in a separate package, @angular/common/http. This structure
ensures that existing codebases can slowly migrate to the new API.
The new API improves significantly on the ergonomics and features of the legacy
API. A partial list of new features includes:
* Typed, synchronous response body access, including support for JSON body types
* JSON is an assumed default and no longer needs to be explicitly parsed
* Interceptors allow middleware logic to be inserted into the pipeline
* Immutable request/response objects
* Progress events for both request upload and response download
* Post-request verification & flush based testing framework
`Object.assign` is not available in all supported browsers and one had to
provide a polyfill. This commit replaces `Object.assign` with the spread
operator (`...`), which TypeScript will transpile to ES5-compatible code.
(#17971)
This commit changes the dynamic version of ngUpgrade to use `UpgradeHelper`,
thus bringing its behavior (wrt upgraded components) much closer to
`upgrade/static`. Fixes/features include:
- Fix template compilation: Now takes place in the correct DOM context, instead
of in a detached node (thus has access to required ancestors etc).
- Fix support for the `$onInit()` lifecycle hook.
- Fix single-slot transclusion (including optional transclusion and fallback
content).
- Add support for multi-slot transclusion (inclusing optional slots and fallback
content).
- Add support for binding required controllers to the directive's controller
(and make the `require` behavior more consistent with AngularJS).
- Add support for pre-/post-linking functions.
(This also ports the fixes from #16627 to the dynamic version.)
Fixes#11044
(#17971)
Although, pre- and post-linking functions are correctly called during directive
linking, directives with `link.post` would throw an error. Interestingly, having
`link.pre` only or defining `link: fn` (which is an alias for `link.post: fn`)
would not throw.
This commit removes this check and allows directives with pre- and/or
post-linking functions to work.
Previously, only simple, single-slot transclusion worked on upgraded components.
This commit fixes/adds support for the following:
- Multi-slot transclusion.
- Using fallback content when no transclusion content is provided.
- Destroy unused scope (when using fallback content).
Fixes#13271
Chuck Jazdzewski
Alex Rickabaugh
Leo Gallucci
Yaroslav Admin
meDavid
Jason Aden
Jason Aden
Victor Berchet
Olivier Combe
Abhimanyu Deora
Matias Niemelä
George Kalpakas
Abhimanyu Deora
Igor Minar
Jason Hodges
Pawel Kozlowski
Alex Eagle