Renderer.setText for platform-browser is broken after 2.2.x

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Current behavior
Renderer.setText function doesn't update element's text content.

Expected behavior
Renderer.setText function should update element's text content.

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions
Working version (2.1.2): http://plnkr.co/edit/jXl54wPrjcg4l6BYiv5a?p=preview
Broken version (2.2.2): http://plnkr.co/edit/CCpPqGU1YvVQZAKw5I4L?p=preview

Please tell us about your environment:

• Angular version: 2.2.x

• Browser: all

• Language: TypeScript 2.0.3

[PatrickJS]

here's a workaround until a patch is released

import { DomRenderer } from '@angular/platform-browser';
DomRenderer.prototype.setText = function fixSetText(renderNode: any, text: string): void {
  renderNode.textContent = text;
}

[tbosch]

Renderer.setText was never meant to be used for elements, only for text nodes.
I.e. it still works to update text nodes, but not replace the text content of elements. So this works as intended.

To do this, just use elementRef.nativeElement.textContent = ... directly. This won't work on webworkers, but our webworker story is not complete yet (and also experimental), the most important part, custom render services, is still missing which will allow you to split your services into a UI and a worker part
(see #2409).

[DzmitryShylovich]

@tbosch

Renderer.setText was never meant to be used for elements, only for text nodes.
I.e. it still works to update text nodes, but not replace the text content of elements. So this works as intended.

what about dom adapter?

To do this, just use elementRef.nativeElement.textContent = ... directly

universal?

[IgorMinar]

BrowserAdapter is not a public API, universal has been reaching into private API space. This is a known issue and we are working on fixing this in Universal.

// @vikerman @gdi2290 @jeffbcross

[tbosch]

The change was introduced in d708a88. However, this was already in 2.2.0, but somehow we didn't update our bundles correctly...

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