material-dynamic-table

Dynamic table component for angular built on top of angular material table. It offers sorting, pagination, filtering per column and the ability to specify content types and components used for displaying them. The initial purpose of this library was to display data coming from OData API, although it can work with MatTableDataSource (however it needs to be extended to enable filtering - see example).

Demo

Online demo: https://stackblitz.com/edit/dynamic-table

Run ng serve for the main project to launch demo for this library.

Getting started

1. Prerequisites:

Angular material: Please follow https://material.angular.io/guide/getting-started The supported version of Angular Material will be indicated by the major version number of this library. Version 8.3.0 is for Angular Material ^8.0.0, version 9.3.0 is for ^9.0.0, while versions <1.3.0 should work for versions <8.0.0.

For Angular Material 15 and 16 the library is using legacy material components.

Version >=17 of this library is using new versions of material components for table and paginator.

Filter is using material icon, so adding material icons may be needed as well: https://material.angular.io/guide/getting-started#step-6-optional-add-material-icons

2. Install material-dynamic-table:

npm install material-dynamic-table --save

3. Import the installed libraries:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { DynamicTableModule } from 'material-dynamic-table';

import { AppComponent } from './app';

@NgModule({
  ...
  imports: [
    ...

    DynamicTableModule
  ],
})
export class AppModule {}

4. Include mdt-dynamic-table in your component:

5. Specify column definitions and data source:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

import { ColumnConfig } from 'material-dynamic-table';

@Component({
  selector: 'app',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
})
export class AppComponent {
 columns: ColumnConfig[] = [
    {
      name: 'product',
      displayName: 'Product',
      type: 'string',
      hint: 'Product name'
    },
    {
      name: 'description',
      displayName: 'Description',
      type: 'string',
      resizable: { minWidth: 130, maxWidth: 200 }
    },
    {
      name: 'recievedOn',
      displayName: 'Received On',
      type: 'date'
    },
    {
      name: 'created',
      displayName: 'Created Date',
      type: 'date',
      options: {
        dateFormat: 'shortDate'
      }
    }    
  ];

  data: object[] = [
    {
      product: 'Mouse',
      description: 'Fast and wireless',
      recievedOn: new Date('2018-01-02T11:05:53.212Z'),
      created: new Date('2015-04-22T18:12:21.111Z')
    },
    {
      product: 'Keyboard',
      description: 'Loud and Mechanical',
      recievedOn: new Date('2018-06-09T12:08:23.511Z'),
      created: new Date('2015-03-11T11:44:11.431Z')
    },
    {
      product: 'Laser',
      description: 'It\'s bright',
      recievedOn: new Date('2017-05-22T18:25:43.511Z'),
      created: new Date('2015-04-21T17:15:23.111Z')
    },
    {
      product: 'Baby food',
      description: 'It\'s good for you',
      recievedOn: new Date('2017-08-26T18:25:43.511Z'),
      created: new Date('2016-01-01T01:25:13.055Z')
    },
    {
      product: 'Coffee',
      description: 'Prepared from roasted coffee beans',
      recievedOn: new Date('2015-04-16T23:52:23.565Z'),
      created: new Date('2016-12-21T21:05:03.253Z')
    },
    {
      product: 'Cheese',
      description: 'A dairy product',
      recievedOn: new Date('2017-11-06T21:22:53.542Z'),
      created: new Date('2014-02-11T11:34:12.442Z')
    }
  ];

   dataSource = new FilteredDataSource(this.data);
}

Further info

API reference for material-dynamic-table

Properties

Methods

ColumnConfig definition

ColumnConfig is used to provide specification for the columns to be displayed

Cell types

By default there are two types provided:

string

This displays plain string value for property defined under name in ColumnConfig. This is the default type used if there is no type specified for the data type.

date

This type will format property from ColumnConfig.name as date. It can take additional parameter in ColumnConfig.options - dateFormat, which specifies what date format should be used (default is 'short')

Adding additional cell types

New cell types can be defined by adding a component, inheriting from CellComponent

Here is an example of options cell that can be used for showing possible actions

import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core';
import { CellComponent, ColumnConfig } from 'material-dynamic-table';
import { Product } from '../../product';

@Component({
    selector: 'ld-options-cell',
    template: `
  <button>View Details</button>


<button color="primary">
   more_vert
 </button>`
})
export class OptionsCellComponent implements CellComponent {
    @Input()
    column: ColumnConfig;

    @Input()
    row: Product;

    constructor() {}

    showDetails() {
        const productName = this.row.product;

        alert(`Product name is ${productName}.`);
    }
}

Cell types then need to be registered:

import { OptionsCellComponent } from './cells/optionsCell/options-cell.component';

@NgModule({
  ...
  declarations: [
    ...

    OptionsCellComponent
  ],
  entryComponents: [
    ...
      
    OptionsCellComponent
  ]
})
export class AppModule {
  constructor(private readonly cellService: CellService) {
    cellService.registerCell('options', OptionsCellComponent);
  }
}

Adding filters

Filters icon an the column will be displayed whenever there is a registered filter for that columns type. To add a filter first create a component for modal dialog with a model that implements your filter interface. Then register it in the following way:

import { TextFilterComponent } from './filters/text-filter/text-filter.component';

@NgModule({
  ...
  declarations: [
    ...

    TextFilterComponent
  ],
  entryComponents: [
    ...
      
    TextFilterComponent
  ]
})
export class AppModule {
  constructor(private readonly columnFilterService: ColumnFilterService) {
    columnFilterService.registerFilter('string', TextFilterComponent);
  }
}

In this case it is a filter for string cell type named TextFilterComponent. See the example project for full design. To make use of filters you need to have data source that can handle them. See FilteredDataSource from the example to see how MatTableDataSource can be extended to handle it.

Filters can have a description that is displayed when the filter is applied. To set the description for the filter the filter model should have a method getDescription that returns a string. Implement interface 'FilterDescription' for your filter model to have the description displayed.

Resizable column

To enable resizable columns add the css file from node_modules\material-dynamic-table\css\column-resize.css in addition to setting specific columns