rxjs with multiple forkjoin when doing http requests

Question

I am doing some http requests and use rxjs for successfull notification of the result:

  getReportings(departmentId: number): Observable {
                


        

Answer 1

You could extend your stream using switchMap, like this:

getReportings(departmentId: number): Observable<any> {
    return Observable.forkJoin(
        this.http.get('/api/members/' + departmentId).map(res => res.json()),
        this.http.get('/api/reports/' + departmentId).map(res => res.json())
    ).switchMap((result: [any[], any[]]) => {
        let members: any[] = result[0];
        let reports: any[] = result[1];
        let allNewStreams: Observable<any>[] = [
            Observable.of(members),
            Observable.of(reports)
        ];
        // do your stuff and push new streams to array...
        if (foo) { // for each additional request
            let reportId: string | number = reports[0].id; // or however you retrieve the reportId
            allNewStreams.push(
                this.http.get('some/api/ + bar)
                    .map(res => res.json())
                    .map(data => ({reportId, data})); // so your final object will look like this: {reportId: "d38f68989af87d987f8", data: {...}}
            );
        }

        return Observable.forkJoin(allNewStreams); // will contain members, reports + 4-6 other results in an array [members[], reports[], ...other stuff]
    });
}

This should do it, it's more like an "old-style-logic-hammer" approach - in case you are looking for it: There might be a more elegant way to solve this by using other operators, but that is hard to say without knowing the full data and all logic.