Passing object to Child Component Angular2

When getting data from a subscription, my data is not being binded to my local variable.

I have two components, and a service. The parent component invokes a method from a service to do to an http get, the get includes a user object which I need to bind. However, when console.logging the object outside the subscription it appears undefined.

Here is my code:

Parent Component:

selectedUser : User;
onUserRowSelect(event): void {
this.router.navigate(['../childComponent'], { relativeTo: this.route });

this.formService.getUser(event.data.USER_ID).subscribe(result => {
console.log(result); // <-- Object is logged properly.
this.selectedUser = result; // Assigning the local @Input variable to the result
});
}


Child Component:

@Input() selectedUser : User;

ngOnInit() {
console.log(this.selectedUser); // Returns undefined.
}


Service with Http:

getUser(id: number): Observable<User> {
const _url = 'myURL/getuser/' + id;
const headers = new Headers();
headers.append('X-User', sessionStorage.getItem('username'));
headers.append('X-Token', sessionStorage.getItem('token'));
headers.append('X-AccessTime', sessionStorage.getItem('AccessTime'));
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
const options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });

return this.http.get(_url, options)
.map(response => {
const responseAsObject = response.json();
this.myUser = responseAsObject;
return responseAsObject;
});
}


HTML Form Templates:

Child template

<div id="top">
<nb-card>
<nb-card-header>Update User</nb-card-header>
<nb-card-body header="Update User">
<div class='row'>
<div class='col-md-6'>
<form [formGroup]="complexForm" (ngSubmit)="submitForm(complexForm.value)">
<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-error':!complexForm.controls['username'].valid}">
<label>Username</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="username" class="form-control" id="username" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['username']">
</div>
<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-error':!complexForm.controls['group_id'].valid}">
<label>Group ID</label>
<div class="row" *ngIf="roles.length">
<div class="col-md-4">
<select [(ngModel)]="selectedGroup" name="group_id" (change)="onChange($event)" class="form-control" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['group_id']"
data-width='200px'>
<option [ngValue]="role.GROUP_ID" *ngFor="let role of roles">
{{role.NAME}}
</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>First Name</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="fname" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['fname']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>User ID</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="ID" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['USER_ID']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Last Name</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="lname" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['lname']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Organization</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="organization" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['organization']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Phone</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="phone" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['phone']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Creation Date</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="creationDate" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['creation_date']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Last Login</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="lastLogin" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['last_login']">
</div>
<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-error':!complexForm.controls['status'].valid}">
<label>Status</label>
<div class="row" *ngIf="statuses.length">
<div class="col-md-6">
<select [(ngModel)]="selectedStatus" name="stasus" (change)="onChange($event)" class="form-control" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['status']"
data-width='500px'>
<option [ngValue]="status.STATUS" *ngFor="let status of statuses">
{{status.STATUS_DESC}}
</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Logged In</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="loggedIn" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['logged_in']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Password Bad Tries</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="pwdBadTries" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['pwd_badtries']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Title</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="title" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['title']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Email</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="email" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['email']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>User Expiry in Days</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="userExpiryInDays" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['user_expiry_in_days']">
</div>
<div class="form-group" [ngClass]="{'has-error':!complexForm.controls['restricted_ip'].valid}">
<label>Restricted IP</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="restrictedIp" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['restricted_ip']">
<div *ngIf="complexForm.controls['restricted_ip'].hasError('pattern') && complexForm.controls['restricted_ip'].touched" class="alert alert-danger">Not a valid IP Address.</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label>Password Expiry Date</label>
<input [(ngModel)]="pwdExpdate" class="form-control" type="text" [formControl]="complexForm.controls['pwd_expdate']">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<button type="submit" value="update" [disabled]="!complexForm.valid" class="btn btn-success">Update User</button>
</div>
</form>
<div>
<button type="submit" value="delete" class="btn btn-success" (click)="confirmDelete()">Delete User</button>
</div>
<br/>
<div>
<button type="submit" value="delete" class="btn btn-success" (click)="getNewPassword()">Set Password</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</nb-card-body>
</nb-card>


Parent HTML:

<div>
<div class="row-md-6">
<nb-card title="List of Users">
<ng2-smart-table [settings]="settings" [source]="source" (userRowSelect)="onUserRowSelect($event)"></ng2-smart-table>
</nb-card>
</div>
</div>


the parent component is a list of users, the child component is a form menu to edit the selected user, since I want to pass user to the child component to edit

So my issue lies with selectedUser appearing undefined in the child component even after adding @input decorator to the variable.

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