I'm switching over my service calls to use the new HttpClient. I'm struggling with 3 things
- Figure out how to show a spinner/progress bar/etc while waiting
for a response from a post, get, put.
- Fake a slow response
- Is it possible to use the new progress events to trigger this sort of functionality?
application.component.ts
this.applicationFormService.putForm(formModel)
.subscribe(
// Successful responses call the first callback.
(res) => this.goToRoute(res),
// Errors will call this callback instead:
(err: HttpErrorResponse) => {
if (err.error instanceof Error) {
console.log("Client-side error occured.");
} else {
console.log("Server-side error occured.");
}
},
//Tried adding progress event logic here but I get error Argument of type '(event: any) => void' is not assignable to parameter of type '() => void'. Is this totally the wrong implementation and can it even be used for showing progress?
event => {
// Via this API, you get access to the raw event stream.
// Look for upload progress events.
if (event.type === HttpEventType.UploadProgress) {
// This is an upload progress event.
} else if (event instanceof HttpResponse) {
}
}
)
application.service.ts
constructor (private httpNew: HttpClient){}
putForm(applicationForm:any){
this.applicationId = this.id.id
const req = new HttpRequest('PUT', this.applicationSubmitUrl+this.applicationId, applicationForm, {
reportProgress: true,
});
return this.httpNew.request(req)
}
Create a spinner component using the below code
import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core';
@Component({
selector: 'spinner',
template:
` <div *ngIf="show">
<span><i class="fa fa-spinner fa-spin" [ngStyle]="{'font-size': size+'px'}" aria-hidden="true"></i></span>
</div>
`
})
export class SpinnerComponent {
@Input() size: number = 25;
@Input() show: boolean;
}
In your main component, add the component markup as below
<spinner [show]="showSpinner" [size]="150"> </spinner>
In your typescript code
this.applicationFormService.putForm(formModel)
.subscribe(data=>{
....
// hide the spinner
this.showSpinner = false;
}(err: HttpErrorResponse) => {
this.showSpinner = false;
})
show the spinner where you are making the service call, for example onInit of the component
ngOnInit(){
this.showSpinner = true;
...service call logics...
}
LIVE DEMO
I've combined @aravind answer and this post (https://alligator.io/angular/httpclient-intro/) to piece together a solution. This leverages Angular's Http client progress events to turn the spinner on/off and also handles errors.
component:
showSpinner = false;
this.shortFormService.postShortForm(formModel)
.subscribe(
(event: HttpEvent<any>) => {
console.log(event)
switch (event.type) {
case HttpEventType.Sent:
this.showSpinner = true;
console.log('Request sent!');
break;
case HttpEventType.ResponseHeader:
console.log('Response header received!');
break;
case HttpEventType.UploadProgress:
const percentDone = Math.round(100 * event.loaded / event.total);
console.log(`File is ${percentDone}% uploaded.`);
case HttpEventType.DownloadProgress:
const kbLoaded = Math.round(event.loaded / 1024);
console.log(`Download in progress! ${ kbLoaded }Kb loaded`);
break;
case HttpEventType.Response:
console.log('