How to Add a Validator dynamically to a FormControl in Angular 2

Question

I am using ReactiveFormsModule and have defined all my form controls including simple validators such as Validators.required within a const configuration.

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Answer 1

Looking at your code, what you could do:

<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-danger':!form.get('site_id').valid}">
        <label for="site_id" class="form-control-label">Site</label>
        <input id="site_id" [formControl]="site_id_control" type="text" placeholder="Site" class="form-control input-sm">
        <div *ngIf="!form.get('site_id').valid">
            <div class="form-control-feedback">Site is required?</div>
            <small class="form-text text-muted">Please enter a Site, eg. xyz.</small>
        </div>
    </div>

Look at [formControl]="site_id_control"

Then, this way, you can add or remove the validators from that specific control like this:

inside your class:

export class JobSearchEditComponent {
    private site_id_control=this.form.controls['site_id'];

    updateValidator(){
       let exisitingValidators = this.site_id_control.validators;
       this.site_id_control.setValidators(Validators.compose([...existingValidators , exampleValidator]))

        // you probably also need this : 
         this.site_id_control.updateValueAndValidity();

    }
}