I'm playing with Angular2 and TypeScript and it's not going well (this would be so easy in AngularJS). I'm writing a little experiment app to get to grips with it all and I have the following component as my main / top level component...
import {Component, OnInit} from 'angular2/core';
import {RouteConfig, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES} from 'angular2/router';
import {UserData} from './services/user-data/UserData';
import {Home} from './components/home/home';
import {UserStatus} from './types/types.ts';
import {Http, Headers, Response} from 'angular2/http';
@Component({
selector: 'app', // <app></app>
providers: [...FORM_PROVIDERS],
directives: [...ROUTER_DIRECTIVES],
template: require('./app.html')
})
@RouteConfig([
{path: '/', component: Home, name: 'Home'},
// more routes here....
])
export class App {
userStatus: UserStatus;
constructor(public http: Http) {
}
ngOnInit() {
// I want to obtain a user Profile as soon as the code is initialised
var headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
this.http.get('/restservice/userstatus', {headers: headers})
.subscribe(
(data: Response) => {
data = JSON.parse(data['_body']);
this.userStatus = data;
},
err => console.log(err), // error
() => console.log('getUserStatus Complete') // complete
);
}
}
Now when the top level component is bootstrapped / initialised I want to make a call to a phoney REST service (/restservice/userstatus) I set up that returns an object that I have made into a type like so (this is from import {UserStatus} from './types/types.ts'
):
export class UserStatus {
constructor (
public appOS?: any , // can be null
public firstName: string,
public formerName?: any, // can be null
public fullPersId: number,
public goldUser: boolean,
public hasProfileImage: boolean,
public hideMoblieNavigationAndFooter: boolean,
public persId: string,
public profileName: string,
public profilePicture: string,
public showAds: boolean,
public siteId: number,
public url: string,
public verified: boolean
) {
}
}
Now the appOS
and formerName
properties could potentially be null
and when serving up the response in my REST service they are, the JSON object looks like so:
{
appOS: null,
firstName: "Max",
formerName: null,
fullPersId: 123456789,
goldUser: true,
hasProfileImage: true,
hideMoblieNavigationAndFooter: false,
persId: "4RUDIETMD",
profileName: "Max Dietmountaindew",
profilePicture: "http://myurl.com/images/maxdietmountaindew.jpg",
showAds: true,
siteId: 1,
url: "/profile/maxdietmountaindew",
verified: true
}
So the data structure sent from my phoney service and the Type Object match however when I try to assign the data from the Rest Service to component in the class 'this.userStatus = data;'
I get the following error....
"error TS2322: Type 'Response' is not assignable to type 'UserStatus'.
Property 'appOS' is missing in type 'Response'."
I assume in my Type class I am doing something wrong with the definition where nulls are concerned can anyone see what I am doing wrong or explain why I am getting the error. Thanks in advance.