ionic2 - add log out in sidemenu

Question

I am using sidemenu template to begin my app. I want to add a button in sidemenu for user to launch a logout alert modal to confirm logout. Here are my code:

app.component.ts:

import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { Nav, Platform } from 'ionic-angular';
import { StatusBar, Splashscreen } from 'ionic-native';

import { Home } from '../pages/home/home';
import { Profile } from '../pages/profile/profile';
import { Logout } from '../pages/logout/logout';

@Component({
  templateUrl: 'app.html'
})
export class MyApp {
  @ViewChild(Nav) nav: Nav;

  rootPage: any = Home;

  pages: Array<{title: string, component: any}>;

  constructor(public platform: Platform, public logout:Logout) {
    this.initializeApp();

    // used for an example of ngFor and navigation
    this.pages = [
      { title: 'Home', component: Home },
      { title: 'Profile', component: Profile }
    ];

  }

  initializeApp() {
    this.platform.ready().then(() => {
      // Okay, so the platform is ready and our plugins are available.
      // Here you can do any higher level native things you might need.
      StatusBar.styleDefault();
      Splashscreen.hide();
    });
  }

  openPage(page) {
    // Reset the content nav to have just this page
    // we wouldn't want the back button to show in this scenario
    this.nav.setRoot(page.component);
  }

  logoutApp(){ ///<-- call from static button
    this.logout.presentConfirm(); ///<-- call 
  }

}

app.html:

<ion-menu [content]="content">
  <ion-content>
    <ion-list>
      <button menuClose ion-item *ngFor="let p of pages" (click)="openPage(p)">
        {{p.title}}
      </button>
      <button ion-item (click)="logoutApp()">
      <!--Add this static button for logout-->
        Log Out
      </button>
    </ion-list>

  </ion-content>

</ion-menu>
<ion-nav [root]="rootPage" #content swipeBackEnabled="false"></ion-nav>

app.module.ts:

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { IonicApp, IonicModule } from 'ionic-angular';
import { MyApp } from './app.component';

import { Home } from '../pages/home/home';
import { Profile } from '../pages/profile/profile';
import { Logout } from '../pages/logout/logout';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    MyApp,
    Home,
    Profile,
    Logout
  ],
  imports: [
    IonicModule.forRoot(MyApp)
  ],
  bootstrap: [IonicApp],
  entryComponents: [
    MyApp,
    Home,
    Profile,
    Logout
  ],
  providers: []
})
export class AppModule {}

logout.ts:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { AlertController } from 'ionic-angular';

@Component({
  template: ``
})
export class Logout {
  constructor(
    public alertCtrl: AlertController
  ) { }

presentConfirm() {
  let alert = this.alertCtrl.create({
    title: 'Confirm Log Out',
    message: 'Are you sure you want to log out?',
    buttons: [
      {
        text: 'Cancel',
        role: 'cancel',
        handler: () => {
          console.log('Cancel clicked');
        }
      },
      {
        text: 'Log Out',
        handler: () => {
          console.log('Logged out');
        }
      }
    ]
  });
  alert.present();
}

}

Based on my knowledge this should be sufficient. However I got an error:

45EXCEPTION: Error in ./MyApp class MyApp_Host - inline template:0:0 caused by: No provider for Logout!

But why do we need provider here? Is there something I missed out?

Answer 1

Logout isn't a provider (it's a component), yet you're trying to inject it into MyApp. From the looks of it, it doesn't look like your intention is really to make the Logout a component. In which case, you should instead replace the @Component() with @Injectable()

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

@Injectable()
export class Logout {
}

Then remove it from the @NgModule.declarations and @NgModule.entryComponent, and add it to the @NgModule.providers

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    // Logout
  ],
  entryComponents: [
    // Logout
  ],
  providers: [
    Logout
  ]
})
class AppModule {}

If Logout is supposed to be a component and you want to be able to access a method from it inside MyApp, what you should do instead is create a service that can be injected both into the Logout and MyApp, that can make use the service functionality to present the alert.