refactor(compiler): add control.ignoreCurrentElement() to skip the current element

relates to #808

modules/angular2/src/render/dom/compiler/compile_control.js

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ export class CompileControl {
   _parent:CompileElement;
   _results;
   _additionalChildren;
+  _ignoreCurrentElement: boolean;
+
   constructor(steps) {
     this._steps = steps;
     this._currentStepIndex = 0;
@@ -27,14 +29,21 @@ export class CompileControl {
     var previousStepIndex = this._currentStepIndex;
     var previousParent = this._parent;
 
-    for (var i=startStepIndex; i<this._steps.length; i++) {
+    this._ignoreCurrentElement = false;
+
+    for (var i = startStepIndex;
+         i < this._steps.length && !this._ignoreCurrentElement;
+         i++) {
       var step = this._steps[i];
       this._parent = parent;
       this._currentStepIndex = i;
       step.process(parent, current, this);
       parent = this._parent;
     }
-    ListWrapper.push(results, current);
+
+    if (!this._ignoreCurrentElement) {
+      ListWrapper.push(results, current);
+    }
 
     this._currentStepIndex = previousStepIndex;
     this._parent = previousParent;
@@ -55,4 +64,14 @@ export class CompileControl {
     }
     ListWrapper.push(this._additionalChildren, element);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Ignores the current element.
+   *
+   * When a step call [ignoreCurrentElement], no further steps are executed on the current
+   * element and no [CompileElement] is added to the result list.
+   */
+  ignoreCurrentElement() {
+    this._ignoreCurrentElement = true;
+  }
 }

modules/angular2/src/render/dom/compiler/compile_element.js

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ export class CompileElement {
   distanceToInheritedBinder:number;
   inheritedElementBinder:ElementBinderBuilder;
   compileChildren: boolean;
-  ignoreBindings: boolean;
   elementDescription: string; // e.g. '<div [class]="foo">' : used to provide context in case of error
 
   constructor(element, compilationUnit = '') {
@@ -34,8 +33,6 @@ export class CompileElement {
     this.inheritedElementBinder = null;
     this.distanceToInheritedBinder = 0;
     this.compileChildren = true;
-    // set to true to ignore all the bindings on the element
-    this.ignoreBindings = false;
     // description is calculated here as compilation steps may change the element
     var tplDesc = assertionsEnabled()? getElementDescription(element) : null;
     if (compilationUnit !== '') {

modules/angular2/src/render/dom/compiler/property_binding_parser.js

@@ -30,10 +30,6 @@ export class PropertyBindingParser extends CompileStep {
   }
 
   process(parent:CompileElement, current:CompileElement, control:CompileControl) {
-    if (current.ignoreBindings) {
-      return;
-    }
-
     var attrs = current.attrs();
     var newAttrs = MapWrapper.create();
 

modules/angular2/src/render/dom/compiler/text_interpolation_parser.js

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export class TextInterpolationParser extends CompileStep {
   }
 
   process(parent:CompileElement, current:CompileElement, control:CompileControl) {
-    if (!current.compileChildren || current.ignoreBindings) {
+    if (!current.compileChildren) {
       return;
     }
     var element = current.element;