Kendo-angular: Grid: Injection of CheckboxColumnComponent into directive not working

[akloeber]

I'm using custom directives to configure defaults for grid columns across the entire apps in a unified way.

For example there is a CurrencyColumnDirective which configures the currency format and adds a CSS class for right alignment:

import {Directive} from '@angular/core';
import {ColumnComponent} from '@progress/kendo-angular-grid';

@Directive({selector: '[appCurrencyColumn]'})
export class CurrencyColumnDirective {

  constructor(private column: ColumnComponent) {
    column.format = '{0:c}';
    column.cssClass = 'app-ta-r';
  }

}

It works perfectly when used like this:

<kendo-grid-column field="unitPrice" title="Unit Price" appCurrencyColumn></kendo-grid-column>

Here is a Plunker with a demo: https://plnkr.co/edit/UyXcqL8zzwXEwiQb0yGV?p=preview

Unfortunately the same approach does not work for CheckboxColumnComponent as it is not exported in module @progress/kendo-angular-grid although it is part of the public API.

It does work with JIT in the devserver (i.e. ng serve) when I use deep import {CheckboxColumnComponent} from '@progress/kendo-angular-grid/dist/es/columns/checkbox-column.component'; like this:

import {Directive} from '@angular/core';
import {CheckboxColumnComponent} from '@progress/kendo-angular-grid/dist/es/columns/checkbox-column.component';

@Directive({selector: 'kendo-grid-checkbox-column'})
export class CheckboxColumnDirective {

  constructor(private column: CheckboxColumnComponent) {
    column.width = 30;
    column.resizable = false;
    column.showSelectAll = true;
  }
}

Although working in dev mode, it breaks AOT compilation for production (i.e. ng build --prod) with the following error:

ERROR in : Can't resolve all parameters for CheckboxColumnDirective in /Users/me/myapp/src/app/directives/grid/checkbox-column.directive.ts: (?).

__Environment:__
@progress/[email protected]
@angular/[email protected]
@angular/*@5.2.6
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node 8.9.4
Mac OS 10.13.3

[rusev]

@akloeber Thank you for the report.

The fix is available in the dev build.

[akloeber]

@rusev I can confirm that it works with the dev build (checked with @progress/[email protected]).