@ember-decorators/argument

This addon provides a set of decorators that allow you to declaratively specify argument and field types and properties, such as mutability. It includes:

1. The @argument decorator, which allows you to declare a field on a component or Ember object as an argument it receives and provide a default value
2. Several validation decorators and helpers inspired by ember-prop-types which allow you to specify runtime validations for fields

Usage

import Component from '@ember/component';
import { argument } from '@ember-decorators/argument';
import { type } from '@ember-decorators/argument/type';
import { immutable } from '@ember-decorators/argument/validation';

export default class ExampleComponent extends Component {
  @argument
  @type('string')
  @immutable
  arg = 'default';
}

{{example-component arg="value"}}

Decorators

@argument

Declares a field as an argument of the component or object and optionally will assign a default value unless one is passed in or provided by a superclass. By default components will throw an error if an argument is provided but was not defined on the class. This behavior does not apply to objects in general since they have much more varied use cases, and can be disabled via a config option in ember-cli-build.

import Component from '@ember/component';
import { argument } from '@ember-decorators/argument';

export default class ExampleComponent extends Component {
  @argument
  arg = 'default';
}

<!-- arg === 'default' -->
{{example-component}}

<!-- arg === 'value' -->
{{example-component arg="value"}}

<!-- throws an error -->
{{example-component foo="value"}}

@type

Declares that a field must be a specific type. Accepts exactly one type, which may either be a string that represents a primitive type, a class that the field is an instance of, or a type created using the type helpers.

Primitive types match those of Typescript, including:

• any
• boolean
• null
• number
• object
• string
• symbol
• undefined

You can also pass null and undefined directly as types for convenience

Type helpers include:

• unionOf: Produces a union type from the specified types
• arrayOf: Produces a type for an array of specific types
• shapeOf: Accepts an object of key -> type pairs, and checks the shape of the field to make sure it matches the object passed in. The validator only checks to make sure that the fields exist and are their proper types, so it is valid for all objects which fulfill the shape (structural typing)
• optional: Produces an optional / nullable type that, in addition to the type that was passed in, also allows null and undefined.

import Component from '@ember/component';
import { type, arrayOf, unionOf, optional } from '@ember-decorators/argument/type';

export default class ExampleComponent extends Component {
  @type(unionOf(null, 'string'))
  arg = 'default';

  @type(unionOf(undefined, Date))
  foo;

  @type(unionOf('string', 'number', Date))
  bar;

  @type(optional(Date))
  optionalDate; // can be either `null`, `undefined` or an instance of ´Date

  @type(unionOf(null, undefined, Date))
  optionalThroughUnion; // this is virtually identical to `optionalDate`

  @type(arrayOf('string'))
  stringArray;

  @type(arrayOf('any'))
  anyArray;

  @type(
    arrayOf(
      unionOf(
        'string',
        'number',
        Element
      )
    )
  )
  unionArray;
}

In addition, this library includes several predefined types for convenience:

• Action - union type of string and Function. This is the recommended type to use for actions as it will improve readability and in the future provide metadata for automatic documentation generation
• ClosureAction - Type alias for Function. If you want to enforce strict usage of closure actions only this is the recommended type
• Element - Fastboot safe type alias for window.Element
• Node - Fastboot safe type alias for window.Node

These types can be imported from @ember-decorators/argument/types

@required

Declares that the field is required upon instantiation. The validator runs at the end of object creation, so the value can be provided by a subclass.

import Component from '@ember/component';
import { argument } from '@ember-decorators/argument';
import { required } from '@ember-decorators/argument/validation';

export default class ExampleComponent extends Component {
  @required
  @argument
  arg;
}

{{example-component arg="value"}}

<!-- throws an error -->
{{example-component}}

@immutable

Declares that the field is immutable. Validations begin after the object is created, so the value can be changed or overridden by subclasses.

import EmberObject from '@ember/object';
import { immutable } from '@ember-decorators/argument/validation';

class ExampleClass extends EmberObject {
  @immutable
  field = 'value';
}

let example = ExampleClasse.create();

example.set('field', 'bar'); // throws an error

Installation

While ember-decorators is not a hard requirement to use this addon, it's recommended as it adds the base class field and decorator babel transforms

ember install ember-decorators
ember install @ember-decorators/argument

Configuration

You can tweak the following settings in your config/environment.js under the @ember-decorators/argument namespace:

typeRequired

Type: Boolean | Default: false

For example

module.exports = function (environment) {
  let ENV = {
    ...
    '@ember-decorators/argument': {
      typeRequired: true
    }
    ...

If enabled, requires you to also specify a @type for every @argument.

Note: Enabling this option breaks addons that use @ember-decorators/argument, but chose to not specify types for their arguments. See #29 for more information.

ignoreComponentsWithoutValidations

Type: Boolean | Default: false

For example

module.exports = function (environment) {
  let ENV = {
    ...
    '@ember-decorators/argument': {
      ignoreComponentsWithoutValidations: true
    }
    ...

If enabled, components that don't have any validations defined on them will not get validated. This is very handy, if you're adding this addon to a pre-existing codebase, since it allows you to progressively migrate your components one by one.

Running

• ember serve
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Running Tests

• npm test (Runs ember try:each to test your addon against multiple Ember versions)
• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build

For more information on using ember-cli, visit https://ember-cli.com/.