Angular 4, convert http response observable to object observable

Question

I\'m new to the concepts of observables and need some help with a conversion.
I have a service which returns an Observable from a Http request,

Answer 1

In the Angular 4+, It can be done automatically. You can change your getPriceTags method:

export class PriceTagService {
    constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}

    getPriceTags<T>(): Observable<T> {

        // Set the request headers
        const headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });

        // Returns the request observable
        return this.http.post<T>(`${Constants.WEBSERVICE_ADDRESS}/priceTag`, null, {headers: headers});

    }
}

And your DataSource class can be:

export class PriceTagDataSource extends DataSource<PriceTag> {
    constructor (private priceTagService: PriceTagService) {
        super();
    }

    connect(): Observable<PriceTag> {
        // Here you can retrieve the Observable<PriceTag> from service and return directly
        return this.priceTagService.getPriceTags<PriceTag>();
    }

    disconnect() {}
}

Answer 2

As of angular 4.3 this can be done automatically.

Example:

export class SomeService {
    constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}  // <--- NOTE: HttpClient instead of Http

    getSome(): Observable<MyAwesomeObject> {
        return this.http.get<MyAwesomeObject>('myUrl');
    }
}

So in your case that would be:

return this.http.post<PriceTag>(Constants.WEBSERVICE_ADDRESS + "/priceTag", null, {headers: headers});

Again, use the HttpClient instead of Http

Answer 3

I guess your HTTP Response is a JSON containing a PriceTag? The issue is that you want to create a PriceTag object. You can just convert the json to a PriceTag by type casting, but then it won't be a real PriceTag object.

The way we have resolved this is:

export class Serializable {
  constructor(json?: any) {
    if (json) {
      Object.assign(this, json);
    }
  }
}

And then a serializable class:

export class PriceTag extends Serializable {}

Then, your GetPriceTags function needs to be changed to:

getPriceTags(): Observable<PriceTag> {

    // Set the request headers
    const headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });

    // Returns the request observable
    return this.http.post(Constants.WEBSERVICE_ADDRESS + "/priceTag", null, {headers: headers})
    .map(res => new PriceTag(res.json()));

}