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mlindegarde
mlindegarde

Reputation: 395

Angular: How to map JSON result from HttpClient request to class instances?

I have the following code which seems wrong:

public search(searchString: string): Observable<Array<ClientSearchResult>> {
    let params = new HttpParams().set('searchString', searchString);

    return this.http
        .get<Array<ClientSearchResult>>(this.searchUrl, { params: params })
        .map((results: ClientSearchResult[]) => results.map((r: ClientSearchResult) => new ClientSearchResult(r)));
}

I know that the API is returning a JSON object which is not the same as an instance of my TypeScript class. However, I want to use properties defined in the TypeScript class.

Is there a better way to map the array coming from my API call to an array that actually consists of instances of ClientSearchResult?

Here is the ClientSearchResult object:

import { Name } from './name';

export class ClientSearchResult {
    public id: string;
    public name: Name;
    public dateOfBirth: Date;
    public socialSecurityNumber: string;

    public get summary(): string {
        let result: string = `${this.name}`;

        if (this.dateOfBirth)
            result += ` | ${this.dateOfBirth.toLocaleDateString()}`;

        return result;
    }

    constructor(source: ClientSearchResult) {
        this.id = source.id;
        this.name = new Name(source.name);
        this.dateOfBirth = source.dateOfBirth? new Date(source.dateOfBirth) : undefined;
        this.socialSecurityNumber = source.socialSecurityNumber;
    }

    public toString(): string {
        return this.summary;
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5158

Answers (3)

AsGoodAsItGets
AsGoodAsItGets

Reputation: 3181

I have been using this very nice (and up-to-date at the time of posting) library:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/class-transformer

It can handle very complex cases with nested classes and more.

Upvotes: 0

artonio
artonio

Reputation: 141

We use a wonderful library to map json to typescript objects. https://github.com/shakilsiraj/json-object-mapper

json-object-mapper depends on reflect-metadata library as it is using decorators to serialize and deserialize the data.

Upvotes: 2

dhilt
dhilt

Reputation: 20844

As an option you may try TypeScript as operator to cast your API response to the ClientSearchResult type.

import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';

public search(searchString: string): Observable<ClientSearchResult[]> {
    const params = new HttpParams().set('searchString', searchString);
    return this.http.get(this.searchUrl, { params: params })
        .map((results: Response) => results.json() as ClientSearchResult[]);
}

This approach requires your model class to be used as an interface, or just to be an interface:

interface ClientSearchResult {
  id: number;
  // etc
}

Upvotes: 1

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