CODEWITHSUNDEEP
angulartypescriptrxjsobservable
GaborH
GaborH

Reputation: 719

How to find an element of an array by id with Observable in Angular2

I decided to use Observable instead of Http promises.

That is how my Promise service looked:

export class MovieService {

    movies: Movie[]
    movie: Movie;
    constructor(private http:Http) { }

   getMovies(): Promise<Movie[]>{

        return this.http.get('http://api.request.com')
            .toPromise()
            .then((res:Response) => res.json()['results'])

    }
    getMovie(id: number): Promise<Movie> {
        return this.getMovies()
            .then(movies => movies.find(movie => movie.id == id));

    }

}

First I fetch an array of movies, and than I find a certain movie of the array by id. However when I try to do the same with Observable, I get an error notification on find: Property 'find' does not exist on type 'Movie[]'.

Here is what I tried with the Observable service:

export class MovieService {

    movies: Movie[];
    movie: Movie;

    constructor(private http: Http) {
    }

    getMovies(): Observable<Movie[]> {

        return this.http.get('http://api.request.com)
            .map((res: Response) => res.json()['results']);
    }

    getMovie(id: number): Observable<Movie> {
        return this.getMovies()
            .subscribe(movies => movies.find(movie => movie.id == id));
    }
}

How can I achieve the same functionality in my Observable service just like in my Promise service?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 47565

Answers (1)

yurzui
yurzui

Reputation: 214175

I suppose you should use map method instead of subscribe which returns Subscription object

export class MovieService {
  movies: Movie[];
  movie: Movie;

  constructor(private http: Http) {}

  getMovies(): Observable<Movie[]> {
    return this.http.get('http://api.request.com')
      .map((res: Response) => res.json()['results']);
  }

  getMovie(id: number): Observable<Movie> {
    return this.getMovies()
      .map(movies => movies.find(movie => movie.id == id));
  }
}

Plunker Example

Upvotes: 35

Related Questions