ais-toggle
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import { NgAisToggleModule } from 'angular-instantsearch';
@NgModule({
  imports: [
    NgAisToggleModule,
  ],
})
export class AppModule {}
    1. Follow additional steps in Optimize build size to ensure your code is correctly bundled.
    2. This imports all the widgets, even the ones you don’t use. Read the Getting started guide for more information.
  
About this widget
The ais-toggle widget provides an on / off filtering feature based on an attribute value.
Examples
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<ais-toggle
  attribute="free_shipping"
  label="Free Shipping"
></ais-toggle>
Props
| Parameter | Description | ||
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            attribute
          
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                type: string
                
               
              
                
                        Required
                
               
          The name of the attribute on which to apply the refinement. To avoid unexpected behavior, you can’t use the same   | 
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            label
          
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                type: string
                
               
              
                
                        Required
                
               
          Label to display for the checkbox.  | 
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            on
          
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                type: boolean|number|string
                
               
              
                
                  default: true
                
               
              
                
                    Optional
                
               
          The value of the refinement to apply on the attribute when checked.  | 
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            off
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: boolean|number|string
                
               
              
                
                    Optional
                
               
          The value of the refinement to apply on the attribute when unchecked.  | 
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HTML output
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<div class="ais-ToggleRefinement">
  <label class="ais-ToggleRefinement-label">
    <input class="ais-ToggleRefinement-checkbox" type="checkbox" />
    <span class="ais-ToggleRefinement-labelText">Free Shipping</span>
    <span class="ais-ToggleRefinement-count">18,013</span>
  </label>
</div>
Customize the UI with connectToggleRefinement
If you want to create your own UI of the ais-toggle widget, you can combine the connectToggleRefinement connector with the TypedBaseWidget class.
1. Extend the TypedBaseWidget class
  
  
  First of all, you will need to write some boilerplate code to initialize correctly the TypedBaseWidget class. This happens in the constructor() of your class extending the TypedBaseWidget class.
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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef, Optional } from '@angular/core';
import { TypedBaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch, NgAisIndex } from 'angular-instantsearch';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-toggle-refinement',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class ToggleRefinement extends TypedBaseWidget {
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ToggleRefinement');
  }
}
There are a couple of things happening in this boilerplate:
- create a 
ToggleRefinementclass extendingTypedBaseWidget - reference the 
<ais-instantsearch>parent component instance on theToggleRefinementwidget class - set 
app-toggle-refinementas a selector, so we can use our component as<app-toggle-refinement></app-toggle-refinement> 
2. Connect your custom widget
The TypedBaseWidget class has a method called createWidget() which takes two arguments: the connector to use and an object of options
(instance options)
 for this connector. We call this method at ngOnInit. This component now implements OnInit.
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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef, Optional } from '@angular/core';
import { TypedBaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch, NgAisIndex } from 'angular-instantsearch';
import connectToggleRefinement, {
  ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription,
  ToggleRefinementConnectorParams
} from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors/toggle-refinement/connectToggleRefinement';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-toggle-refinement',
  template: '<p>It works!</p>'
})
export class ToggleRefinement extends TypedBaseWidget<ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription, ToggleRefinementConnectorParams> {
  public state: ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription['renderState']; // Rendering options
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ToggleRefinement');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectToggleRefinement, {
      // instance options
      attribute: 'free_shipping',
    });
    super.ngOnInit();
  }
}
3. Render from the state
Your component instance has access to a this.state property which holds the rendering options of the widget.
public state: ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription['renderState'];
// {
//   value: object;
//   refine: Function;
//   createURL: Function;
//   widgetParams: object;
// }
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<label *ngIf="state.value">
  <input type="checkbox" [checked]="state.value.isRefined" (click)="state.refine(state.value)"/>
  Free shipping {{ state.value.count }}
</label>
Rendering options
| Parameter | Description | 
|---|---|
          
            value
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: object
                
               
          The current refinement, with: 
  | 
      
          
            refine
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: function
                
               
          Updates to the next state by applying the toggle refinement.  | 
      
          
            createURL
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: function
                
               
          Generates a URL for the next state.  | 
      
          
            widgetParams
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: object
                
               
          All original widget options forwarded to the render function.  | 
      
Instance options
| Parameter | Description | 
|---|---|
          
            attribute
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: string
                
               
              
                
                        Required
                
               
          The name of the attribute on which to apply the refinement. To avoid unexpected behavior, you can’t use the same   | 
      
          
            on
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: boolean|number|string
                
               
              
                
                  default: true
                
               
              
                
                    Optional
                
               
          The value of the refinement to apply on the attribute when checked.  | 
      
          
            off
          
         | 
        
           
                
                type: boolean|number|string
                
               
              
                
                    Optional
                
               
          The value of the refinement to apply on the attribute when unchecked.  | 
      
Full example
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import { Component, Inject, forwardRef, Optional } from '@angular/core';
import { TypedBaseWidget, NgAisInstantSearch, NgAisIndex } from 'angular-instantsearch';
import connectToggleRefinement, {
  ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription,
  ToggleRefinementConnectorParams
} from 'instantsearch.js/es/connectors/toggle-refinement/connectToggleRefinement';
@Component({
  selector: 'app-toggle-refinement',
  template: `
<label *ngIf="state.value">
  <input type="checkbox" [checked]="state.value.isRefined" (click)="state.refine(state.value)"/>
  Free shipping {{ state.value.count }}
</label>
`
})
export class ToggleRefinement extends TypedBaseWidget<ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription, ToggleRefinementConnectorParams> {
  public state: ToggleRefinementWidgetDescription['renderState']; // Rendering options
  constructor(
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisIndex))
    @Optional()
    public parentIndex: NgAisIndex,
    @Inject(forwardRef(() => NgAisInstantSearch))
    public instantSearchInstance: NgAisInstantSearch
  ) {
    super('ToggleRefinement');
  }
  ngOnInit() {
    this.createWidget(connectToggleRefinement, {
      // instance options
      attribute: 'free_shipping',
    });
    super.ngOnInit();
  }
}