Angular2: Use Pipe to render templates dynamically

Solution 1:

After continuing my research I could not find out a way of implementing what I want with @Pipe, and for a good reason: @Pipe is not meant to work like that.

I found instead Angular 4's NgComponentOutlet.

I am starting to work with it, but my first example would be something like this:

@Component({selector: 'text-input-ibo-name', template: '<input type="text" name="ibo_name">'})
class TextIboName {
}
@Component({
  selector: 'ng-my-form',
  template: `<ng-container *ngComponentOutlet="TextIboName"></ng-container>`
})
class NgMyForm {
  // This field is necessary to expose HelloWorld to the template.
  TextIboName = TextIboName;
}

This is the basis. Now I just need to see how to apply <ng-container *ngComponentOutlet="TextIboName"></ng-container> in my *ngFor (see OP).

If people request it, I can update this answer with more concrete and 'final' code.

Update:

This would be my first approach to select the template for that field that is declared on the mapped JSON.

<div *ngFor="let field of genericFilters | dynamicTemplateProcessorPipe">
    <ng-container *ngComponentOutlet="{{field.template}}"></ng-container>
</div>

The classes TextIboName, TextIboCode, TextIboSurname, etc. Will be declared in a common folder and imported to the current component, just to have a more abstract approach.

The goal is to be able to reuse these fields throughout all the App. Like this, I will be able to replicate the field TextIboName in other places without having to Copy/Paste HTML code or templates.

Update 2:

If we move our 'field component', in my example would be TextIboName to an external folder within another @ngModule or we simply want to use an external class from another @ngModule we will have to use NgModuleFactory.

Adapted above code:

@Component({
  selector: 'ng-my-form',
  template: `
    <ng-container *ngComponentOutlet="TextIboName;
                                      ngModuleFactory: myModule;"></ng-container>`
})
class NgMyForm {
  // This field is necessary to expose OtherModuleComponent to the template.
  TextIboName = TextIboName;
  myModule: NgModuleFactory<any>;
  constructor(compiler: Compiler) { this.myModule = compiler.compileModuleSync(OtherModule); }
}