create Observable from result

Question

I am trying Angular2.

I noticed that the http service use Observable object instead of Promise (I don\'t like much that choice.. async

Answer 1

The method in TypeScript (or JavaScript for that matter) is called of. Learn rxjs has a nice tutorial as well

If you are using rxjs6 you get everything from rxjs

import { Observable, of } from 'rxjs';

public getPlants(): Observable {
  const mocked: Plant[] = [
    { id: 1, image: 'hello.png' }
  ];
  // returns an Observable that emits one value, mocked; which in this case is an array,
  // and then a complete notification
  // You can easily just add more arguments to emit a list of values instead
  return of(mocked);
}

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In previous version you imported the operator of from a different location

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { of } from 'rxjs/observable/of';

public getPlants(): Observable {
  const mocked: Plant[] = [
    { id: 1, image: 'hello.png' }
  ];
  return of(mocked);
}

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And before that you imported it as an extension for the Observable class

import { Observable } from "rxjs/Observable";
import 'rxjs/add/observable/of';

public getPlants(): Observable {
    // this can be changed to a member variable of course
    let mocked: Plants[] = [{
        id: 1,
        image: "hello.png"
    }];
    return Observable.of(mocked);
}