I have following code:
export class GetPersonsService {
url="https://swapi.co/api/people/";
personsObservables;
headers: HttpHeaders = new HttpHeaders()
.set('Accept', 'application/json');
constructor(private http:HttpClient) { }
getPerson(personIndex){
return this.http.get<Person>(`${this.url}${personIndex}`,{headers:this.headers});
}
getPersons(){
for(let i=0;i<10;i++){
this.personsObservables.push(this.getPerson(i));
}
console.log(this.personsObservables);
return forkJoin(this.personsObservables);
}
}
and I don't understand why this.personsObservables is undefined because If I invoke getPerson(1) I am getting observable.And the next question how to maintain api if there are 10/100 or more items and I want to detect how many are them.
It is necessary:
undefined
errorawait
API call getPerson
(i)`forkJoin
. So the code should look like this:
const personsObservables = [];
async getPersons(){
for(let i=0;i<10;i++){
this.personsObservables.push(await this.getPerson(i));
}
console.log(this.personsObservables);
return forkJoin(this.personsObservables);
}
Let me show an example:
const request1 = this.http.get('https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/india');
const request2 = this.http.get('https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/us');
const request3 = this.http.get('https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/ame');
const request4 = this.http.get('https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/name/ja');
const requestArray = [];
requestArray.push(request1);
requestArray.push(request2);
requestArray.push(request3);
requestArray.push(request4);
forkJoin(requestArray).subscribe(results => {
console.log(results);
this.response = results;
});
All results are ordered accordingly pushed items into requestArray.
It can be seen in a stackblitz example.