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In angular 2, it possible to set values within the html view of a component like this? It's already rendered in PHP:

//html page:
<dropdown [(options)]="['Available', 'Busy', 'Away', 'Offline']"></dropdown>

I have never seen this done anywhere online, so I assume it can't be done. But is there a workaround? For example if I had 100 dropdown components on the page with their own options model, I'd potentially have to make 100 requests to the server if doing it the angular way. Thoughts?

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 //html page:
 <dropdown [options]="['Available', 'Busy', 'Away', 'Offline']"></dropdown>

  • This template is perfectly OK for angular, as long as you use it for one-way binding using [prop]="expression" or prop="{{expression}}",

    WORKING PLUNKER

  • because the moment you try to do two-way binding [(prop)]="expression" over an Array Value it will fail, that's because expression must be a component property to do two-way binding.

    It will throw a Teplate parse error, to be precise.

    BROKEN PLUNKER

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Wonderfully explained answer. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
here is a similar issue for setting values on root elements which is worth referencing: github.com/angular/angular/issues/1858. Basically this question is going against best practice.
Getting the attributes from html: stackoverflow.com/questions/33326376/…

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