How to change behavior of service according to its providing way?

Issue

I have a MessageService in my application shared in various modules and used by a component which display thoses messages. By default, I ask people who use it to provide it in the component, so they don't have to enter a key to select the messages they want to display in the list. If they want to do so a simple boolean on the service tell the algorithm to filter the messages with the key or not.

By default this boolean named "isProvidedInComponent" is true since I believe that people do not need the following feature : use case of component A the source of message adding message(s) to component B, the displayer.

I want to know if there is a way in Angular to automatically set this boolean according to the way the service instance of the service is provided:

• True if the service is provided in component (so we return all the messages of the list since they are proper to the component)
• False if the service is provided in a module (so I need my algorithm to filter the messages on a key given, and throw an error if messages do not have one).

Solution

Add the flag to your constructor

@Injectable()
class MessageService {
  constructor(private myFlag: boolean) {}
}

And set the flag with a factory

In module it will look like

providers:[
  { 
    provide: MessageService, 
    useFactory: () => new MessageService(false),
  }
]

While in component it will be

providers:[
  { 
    provide: MessageService, 
    useFactory: () => new MessageService(true),
  }
]

Answered By - MoxxiManagarm