SnackBarRef component instance ?

[fazega]

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Feature request

What is the expected behavior?

Having a standard for the instance reference and sharing data.

What is the current behavior?

To get the component instance of a SnackBarRef, the attribute is "instance".
To get the component instance of a DialogRef, the attribute is "componentInstance". Besides, in the documentation we can see a method to share data directly has been implemented, it's not the case for SnackBarRef.

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

I think having a standard for these components "with reference" would be clearer for the user.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

Latest of each.

[willshowell]

Agreed that it would be nice to be consistent with componentInstance, but I don't see what you mean about _instance.

https://github.com/angular/material2/blob/master/src/lib/snack-bar/snack-bar-ref.ts#L17-L19

[fazega]

Oops, i perhaps haven't updated to the latest version, my bad. It was not the central point though ;)
Post edited.

[jelbourn]

Closing this since, after releasing 5.0.0, we aren't making any more breaking API changes.

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