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Marinho Brandão
Marinho Brandão

Reputation: 661

Observable from an array doesn't work in TypeScript

I'm trying to create an observable from an array, as documentation says in https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/doc/observable.md:

import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Observable';
let theList = Observable.from(sites);

but I get:

TypeError: Observable_1.Observable.from is not a function

my goal is to use operators like reduce or scan over a Observable sequence, as a standard Observable seems to not support, as below:

this.theList = new Observable(observer => {
  // this works
  observer.next(sites);
});

this.sub = this.theList.reduce(function() {
  // this is never called
  return acc;
}).subscribe(l => {
  // this is never called
  this.finalList = l;
});

The code can be found in this Plnkr: http://plnkr.co/edit/cKEqtp (src/app.ts).

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1118

Answers (2)

Paul Boutes
Paul Boutes

Reputation: 3315

There are multiple solutions :

1 - Import specific element

In your example, you are just importing the Observable, however, you use the .from() method in order to create an observable from an array. So you have to import the .from() method if you want to use it. That is the same for the reduce operator.

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/from';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/reduce';

2 - Import all operator and method

Observable is being brought in from rxjs/Rx, so pulling it in this way will automatically get you all of the operators and method.

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';

What is the difference ?

The big difference between these two approach is that you will not import all operators at once by using the first approach. It can be useful when you're working in production mode.

Upvotes: 4

cartant
cartant

Reputation: 58400

You are importing the minimal Observable:

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';

so to use from, you need this import, too:

import 'rxjs/add/observable/from';

Upvotes: 1

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