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Reputation:

Angular 5+ RxJS Subscribing to Subject Not Working

I have a service which has an observable which is subscribed to. The payload is passed onto a subject in the service. However, when I subscribe to the subject in my component, nothing is happening. I should see the console.log in the .subscribe method in the ngOnInit in the component.

I had this same setup working with a previous version which subscribed to an observable resulting from a http.get operation. I want to know why its not working with this version.

The service:

@Injectable()
export class TileService {

  availableTiles$ = new Subject<any>();

  // The view is expecing an array, else: Error trying to diff '[object Object]'. Only arrays and iterables are allowed
  source: {}[] = [
    {title: 'Title A'},
    {title: 'Title B'}
  ];

  simpleObservable = new Observable((observer) => {
    observer.next(this.source);
    observer.complete();
});

  constructor() { }

  getTiles(): void {
    this.simpleObservable.subscribe(x => this.availableTilesStream(x));
  }

  availableTilesStream(data) {
    console.log(data);                // Logs an array of the two objects from the source array
    this.availableTiles$.next(data);  // Nothing seems to happen here.
   }

}

The component.ts:

@Component({
  selector: 'app-available-tiles',
  templateUrl: './available-tiles.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./available-tiles.component.css']
})
export class AvailableTilesComponent implements OnInit {

  tiles: {}[];

  constructor(private tileService: TileService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.tileService.getTiles();
    this.tileService.availableTiles$.subscribe(x => {
      console.log('Log from availableTiles$.subscribe in ngOnInit: ', x);
      this.tiles = x;
    });
  }

}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 9250

Answers (1)

Rich
Rich

Reputation: 932

Like Ringo said, the component most likely subscribes after data has been passed (via .next()) to the availableTiles$ Subject.

Seeing as you're using Subject, late subscribers won't receive a value until .next() has been called on the source Subject again.

One solution is to use BehaviorSubject. This means that any subscriber (including late ones) will immediately receive a value.

@Injectable()
export class TileService {

   availableTiles$ = new BehaviorSubject<any>([]); // must be initialised with a value

Upvotes: 17

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