In Angular 2 I'm using bootbox.js to create dialogs (alerts, confirmations). I'm trying to create a dialog service, but I'm not sure how to write the code in Typescript is such a way that would allow me to use my service methods the way I'm hoping to.

How I want to use my service:

export class SomeComponent {

  constructor(private _dialog: DialogService){}

  showConfirm() {
    _dialog.confirm()
      .title('Some title')
      .message('Some message')
      .okBtn('Sounds Good')
      .cancelBtn('No way!')
      .confirm(() => {})
      .cancel(() => {})
  }

showAlert() {
        _dialog.alert()
          .title('Some title')
          .message('Some message')
          .okBtn('Sounds Good')
          .callback(() => {})
      }

My service as it currently:

export class DialogService {

confirm() {
    bootbox.dialog({
      title: title,
      message: message,
      buttons: {
        cancel: {
          label: cancelBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => cancel()
        },
        okay: {
          label: okBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => confirm()
        }
      }
    })
  }

 alert() {
    bootbox.dialog({
      title: title,
      message: message,
      buttons: {
        okay: {
          label: okBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => callback()
        }
      }
    })
  }

}

Obviously I would rather pass in the title, message, etc. from the ponent that's using my service, but I'm just not sure how to write the service to allow the usage to be done the way I would to.

In Angular 2 I'm using bootbox.js to create dialogs (alerts, confirmations). I'm trying to create a dialog service, but I'm not sure how to write the code in Typescript is such a way that would allow me to use my service methods the way I'm hoping to.

How I want to use my service:

export class SomeComponent {

  constructor(private _dialog: DialogService){}

  showConfirm() {
    _dialog.confirm()
      .title('Some title')
      .message('Some message')
      .okBtn('Sounds Good')
      .cancelBtn('No way!')
      .confirm(() => {})
      .cancel(() => {})
  }

showAlert() {
        _dialog.alert()
          .title('Some title')
          .message('Some message')
          .okBtn('Sounds Good')
          .callback(() => {})
      }

My service as it currently:

export class DialogService {

confirm() {
    bootbox.dialog({
      title: title,
      message: message,
      buttons: {
        cancel: {
          label: cancelBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => cancel()
        },
        okay: {
          label: okBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => confirm()
        }
      }
    })
  }

 alert() {
    bootbox.dialog({
      title: title,
      message: message,
      buttons: {
        okay: {
          label: okBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => callback()
        }
      }
    })
  }

}

Obviously I would rather pass in the title, message, etc. from the ponent that's using my service, but I'm just not sure how to write the service to allow the usage to be done the way I would to.

• javascript
• typescript
• angular
• angular2-services

2 Answers 2

If I understand you correctly then you're looking for the builder pattern.

Here's an implementation based on your code:

class DialogService {
    private _title: string;
    private _message: string;
    private _okBtn: string;
    private _cancelBtn: string;
    private _confirm: string;
    private _cancel: string;

    constructor() {}

    public title(value: string): DialogService {
        this._title = value;
        return this;
    }

    public message(value: string): DialogService {
        this._message = value;
        return this;
    }

    public okBtn(value: string): DialogService {
        this._okBtn = value;
        return this;
    }

    public cancelBtn(value: string): DialogService {
        this._cancelBtn = value;
        return this;
    }

    public confirm(value: () => {}): DialogService {
        this._confirm = value;
        return this;
    }

    public cancel(value: () => {}): DialogService {
        this._cancel = value;
        return this;
    }

    public show(): void {
        bootbox.dialog({
            title: this._title,
            message: this._message,
            buttons: {
                cancel: {
                    label: this._cancelBtn,
                    className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
                    callback: this._cancel
                },
                okay: {
                    label: okBtn,
                    className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
                    callback: this._confirm
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

Then:

new DialogService()
    .title('Some title')
    .message('Some message')
    .okBtn('Sounds Good')
    .cancelBtn('No way!')
    .confirm(() => {})
    .cancel(() => {})
    .show();

Edit

I saw your changed question after posting this edit, so I'm re-editing it:

interface ButtonData {
    label: string;
    className: string;
    callback: () => void;
}

class DialogService {
    private static BUTTON_CLASS_NAME = "btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary";

    private _title: string;
    private _message: string;
    private _okay: ButtonData;
    private _cancel: ButtonData;

    constructor() {}

    public title(value: string): DialogService {
        this._title = value;
        return this;
    }

    public message(value: string): DialogService {
        this._message = value;
        return this;
    }

    public okay(label: string, callback?: () => void): DialogService {
        this._okay = {
            label: label,
            className: DialogService.BUTTON_CLASS_NAME,
            callback: callback || function() {}
        };

        return this;
    }

    public cancel(label: string, callback?: () => void): DialogService {
        this._cancel = {
            label: label,
            className: DialogService.BUTTON_CLASS_NAME,
            callback: callback || function() {}
        };

        return this;
    }

    public alert(): void {
        bootbox.dialog({
            title: this._title,
            message: this._message,
            buttons: {
                okay: this.okay
            }
        });
    }

    public confirm(): void {
        bootbox.dialog({
            title: this._title,
            message: this._message,
            buttons: {
                cancel: this._cancel,
                okay: this.okay
            }
        });
    }
}

older edit

I'm still not sure what exactly you're looking for, I changed things a bit and made sure that there are confirm and alert methods, but I'm not sure what they are supposed to do...
The confirm uses the bootbox.dialog your code has, but I had no idea what to do with the alert so I invented the bootbox.alert function.
It's probably wrong and you'll need to implement that yourself...

interface ButtonData {
    label: string;
    className: string;
    callback: () => void;
}

interface ServiceData {
    title: string;
    message: string;
    buttons: {
        cancel: ButtonData,
        okay: ButtonData
    };
}

class DialogService {
    private static BUTTON_CLASS_NAME = "btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary";
    private data: ServiceData

    constructor() {
        this.data = <ServiceData> {
            buttons: {
                cancel: <ButtonData> {},
                okay: <ButtonData> {}
            }
        };
    }

    public title(value: string): DialogService {
        this.data.title = value;
        return this;
    }

    public message(value: string): DialogService {
        this.data.message = value;
        return this;
    }

    public okay(label: string, callback?: () => void): DialogService {
        this.data.buttons.okay = {
            label: label,
            className: DialogService.BUTTON_CLASS_NAME,
            callback: callback || function() {}
        }

        return this;
    }

    public cancel(label: string, callback?: () => void): DialogService {
        this.data.buttons.cancel = {
            label: label,
            className: DialogService.BUTTON_CLASS_NAME,
            callback: callback || function() {}
        }

        return this;
    }

    public confirm(): void {
        bootbox.dialog(this.data);
    }

    public alert(): void {
        bootbox.alert(this.data);
    }
}

I would try something like

export class DialogService {

public title: string;
public messafe: string;
.....  // all other properties

confirm() {
    bootbox.dialog({
      title: title,
      message: message,
      buttons: {
        cancel: {
          label: cancelBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => cancel()
        },
        okay: {
          label: okBtn,
          className: 'btn-inverse btn-inverse-primary',
          callback: () => confirm()
        }
      }
    })
  }

}

and then, in the ponent that uses the DialogService

export class SomeComponent {

  constructor(private _dialog: DialogService){}

  this._dialog.title = 'some title';
  this._dialog.message = 'some message';
  // the rest of the stuff

  this._dialog.showConfirm();

}

I hope I heve understood your point and that this helps