Angular ngx-mat-select-search Custom Component

Question

I am trying to use the ngx-mat-select-search component to put a mat-select style dropdown menu with a search bar in my application. https://www.npmjs.com/package/ngx-mat-se

Answer 1

you can get the value of the selected option by having your SiteDropdownComponent implement the ControlValueAccessor interface as follows, resulting in your SiteDropdownComponent behaving as a form control and allowing to access the value with e.g. <app-site-dropdown formControlName="site"></app-site-dropdown>:

...
import { forwardRef } from '@angular/core';
import { ControlValueAccessor, NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR } from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-site-dropdown',
  template: ...
  providers: [
    {
      provide: NG_VALUE_ACCESSOR,
      useExisting: forwardRef(() => SiteDropdownComponent),
      multi: true
    }
  ],
})
export class SiteDropdownComponent implements OnInit, OnDestroy, AfterViewInit, ControlValueAccessor {
  ...

  onChange: Function = (_: any) => {};
  onTouched: Function = (_: any) => {};

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
    ...
    // call this.onChange to notify the parent component that the value has changed
    this.siteCtrl.valueChanges
      .pipe(takeUntil(this.onDestroy))
      .subscribe(value => this.onChange(value))
  }

  writeValue(value: string) {
    // set the value of siteCtrl when the value is set from outside the component
    this.siteCtrl.setValue(value);
  }

  registerOnChange(fn: Function) {
    this.onChange = fn;
  }

  registerOnTouched(fn: Function) {
    this.onTouched = fn;
  }

}

See e.g. https://github.com/bithost-gmbh/ngx-mat-select-search/blob/d7ea78d511bbec45143c58c855f013a44d0d5055/src/app/mat-select-search/mat-select-search.component.ts#L134