Angular2. Map http response to concrete object instance

Question

Сommon approach to process http response is like that:

return this._http.get(url)
           .map((res: Response) => res.json());

which provides you with an Observable<Object[]> where Object is dynamically created type from json de-serialization. Then you can use this result in *ngFor="let item of result | async" etc...

I'd like to get a specific type instance (meaning using new operator to call the type's constructor). Tried different ways to achieve something like that:

.map((res: Response) => { let obj = res.json(); return new MyObject(obj.id, obj.name);})

but getting this error: Cannot find a differ supporting object '[object Object]' of type 'object'. NgFor only supports binding to Iterables such as Arrays.

This way seems to work but it's way too complicated and probably not effective:

.map((res: Response) => {
    let results = <MyObject[]>[];
    let obj = res.json();
    obj.forEach(
        function (o: any) {
            results.push(new MyObject(o.id, o.name));
        }
    );
    return results;
}

Thanks!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22885995/how-do-i-initialize-a-typescript-object-with-a-json-object/22886730#22886730 — Günter Zöchbauer, Sep 10 '16 at 21:41
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35534959/access-key-and-value-of-object-using-ngfor — Günter Zöchbauer, Sep 10 '16 at 21:45
@GünterZöchbauer I need to find a time to go through these posts. I hoped there's something built into Observable too achieve that. I updated my question with the the way which seems to work but I don't like it. — rook, Sep 10 '16 at 21:58

martin · Answer 1 · 2016-09-11T13:25:31.723

If you know what type of objects you want to deconstruct from the JSON (which you probably do) you can create a static method that returns an instance from Object.

class MyClass {

  prop: number;

  static fromObject(src: Object) {
    var obj = new MyClass();
    obj.prop = src.prop;
    return obj;
  }
}

Then convert the JSON response to instances of MyClass:

Rx.Observable.of('[{"prop":1},{"prop":2},{"prop":3}]')
  .map(val => JSON.parse(val))
  .exhaustMap(val => new Rx.Observable.from(val))
  .map(val => MyClass.fromObject(val))
  .subscribe(
    item => console.log('Next: ', item),
    error => console.log('Error:', error),
    _ => console.log('Completed')
  );

How this works:

.map(val => JSON.parse(val)) Just converts the response to JSON which is an array of objects.
.exhaustMap(val => new Rx.Observable.from(val)) Converts each value to an Observable and exhaustMap flattens them so each object from the JSON will be emitted separately.
.map(val => MyClass.fromObject(val)) Use map again to convert each Object to an instance of MyClass.

See live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/f5k9zdh1/1/

Interesting. Still too much code to my taste ;) but I'll take a deeper look. Thanks. — rook, Sep 11 '16 at 18:46

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 05 '17 at 01:25

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.map((res: Response) => res.json().map(obj => new MyObject(obj.id, obj.name)))

edited Jan 05 '17 at 01:25

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answered Jan 05 '17 at 01:00

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Code-only answer are not helpful. Please attempt to explain how your code solves OP's problem. Others who find this question through search may not be as experienced as you; help them understand your answer. – ad absurdum Jan 05 '17 at 05:23

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '16 at 21:43

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Try this syntax, you cast it to your object:

 this.http.post(this.constants.taskUrl + parm, { headers: headers })
            .map((response: Response) => {
                var res = response.json();
                var result = <DataResponseObject>response.json();
                return result;
            })

answered Sep 10 '16 at 21:43

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The deal here is that `response.json()` gives you an array of objects. I updated my question with the way that seems to work but I don't like that way. – rook Sep 10 '16 at 21:53

Angular2. Map http response to concrete object instance

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