How to bind to radio buttons in angular2 beta 6

Question

How does one achieve radio button binding in beta 6?

I found a great plnkr for beta 0 (see http://plnkr.co/edit/aggee6An1iHfwsqGoE3q?p=preview), but when I try to update it to beta 6 it breaks horribly (see http://plnkr.co/edit/voU933?p=preview).

I took a look at the commit that added built-in support for radio options (see https://github.com/angular/angular/commit/e725542), which gives this example

@Component({
  template: `
    <input type="radio" name="food" [(ngModel)]="foodChicken">
    <input type="radio" name="food" [(ngModel)]="foodFish">
  `
})
class FoodCmp {
  foodChicken = new RadioButtonState(true, "chicken");
  foodFish = new RadioButtonState(false, "fish");
}

but my attempts to make that work have so far ended up quite like my failed plnkr.

Answer 1

Update

Radio is working fine in RC.4 and the new forms module. See for example the Plunker in https://stackoverflow.com/a/38590919/217408

Original

Several issues.

Using <script src="https://code.angularjs.org/2.0.0-beta.7/angular2.min.js"></script> caused an exception. I got rid of it by removing `min.?

The radio binds the value {checked: true} instead of value. This is obviously a bug and probably the same as these

• Radio button data binding and form validation not working
• Cannot select multiple radio buttons in same control group (fixed)
• input type=radio not handled correctly by ng-model (fixed)
• https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/7642

I got it working with an ugly workaround. See https://plnkr.co/edit/988PSJKXCfrUXfLOGgyg?p=preview

    <input type="radio" [ngModel]="{checked: model.sex == 'male'}" (ngModelChange)="model.sex='male'"  name="sex" value="male">Male<br>
    <input type="radio" [ngModel]="{checked: model.sex == 'female'}"  (ngModelChange)="model.sex='female'" name="sex" value="female">Female