[feat] add ability to customize template by setting property on controller con...

[hannahhoward]

...structor

After thinking about #154 I decided a good first step would be to allow you to set a $template on a controller's constructor that will override the default template url returned by componentLoaderProvider.

The syntax is essentially:

function MyController(...) {
...
}

MyController.$template = {
   url: 'anyDirectory/anyTemplateName.html'
}

This is in line with where #129 is headed and also matches nicely with the Angular 2 component syntax (it could become an annotation instead of a property just like the template annotation in Angular 2). It also allows you to add support for inline templates, so this works:

function MyController(...) {
...
}

MyController.$template = {
   inline: '<div>Hello!</div>'
}

Anyway, would love feedback if this seems like a good idea.

Also I'm not sure why it shows a bunch of additional changes from what looks like previous commits.

[nyarly]

+1

[hannahhoward]

sorry actually commited changes to the dist dir, fixed now. apologies

[hannahhoward]

oops one more piece of code accidentally left in. wow sloppy :)

[hannahhoward]

i now see angular/angular.js#10007 is probably a more elegant solution to this issue, if it moves forward.

[btford]

We'll see. A proposal like yours also came up during today's 1.x meeting.

Thanks so much for all of your great comments and feedback, btw. I really appreciate it! It'll probably take me a bit longer than I'd like to get around to coalescing and responding to this wave of feedback following ng-conf, but I'm hoping to have more concrete ideas for these big issues this week.

Until then, thanks for your patience!