Access value of array by its index in Angular ngFor directive

Question

I have a requirement to access the value of array item by index in ngFor directive angular

Let say I have entityList array. I also have columnNames array which gives me number of td's to generate. So columnNames acts as a table header and entityList has data for it to display in tabular format.

{
    "Id": 1,
    "Name": "Admin",
}
{
    "Id": 2,
    "Name": "Finance",
}


<tr *ngFor="let entity of entityList">
  <td *ngFor="let column of columnNames;let i = index">
    {{entity[i]}}
  </td>
</tr>

I know I can do it like below , however i want to print the value using index and not by name.

<tr *ngFor="let entity of entityList;let i = index">
    {{entity.Id}}
    {{entity.Name}}
</tr>

Answer 1

Accessing the properties of entry by an index is impossible since it's not an array but an object. What you can do, to get a similar behaviour is its properties with their keys.

ts

  keys = Object.keys;

  entityList = [
    { id: 1, name: 'Admin' },
    { id: 2, name: 'Finance' }
  ];

html

<div *ngFor="let entity of entityList;">
    <span>
        {{ entity[keys(entity)[0]] }} // here you can access the keys index
    </span>
</div>

Basically the idea is to get the property keys in an array, pick the the first/second one and then access the objects property via this key.