I trying to set Pipe in angular 6 that convert text to other with using service (the method that returns observable)
I tried the following code, but I need to return a string instead of Promise
Pipe:
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import { TimeZoneService, TimeZone } from '../services/Global/timezone.service';
//import { resolve } from 'dns';
import { reject } from 'q';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
@Pipe({
name: 'utcToText'
})
export class UtcToTextPipe implements PipeTransform {
private timezoneLst: TimeZone[] = [];
constructor(private _timezoneSvc : TimeZoneService) {}
async transform(timezone: any, args?: any){
this.timezoneLst = await this._timezoneSvc.getTimeZonesLst().toPromise();
return this.timezoneLst.find(x => x.utc.indexOf(timezone) > -1).text;
}
}
html:
<span>{{subscription.time_zone | utcToText}</span>
There is any way to make the asynchronous method of Promise / Ovservabe to a synchronous function that returns synchronous such as String?
Thanks a lot for helpers.
Try instead returning an Observable<string>
and chaining the async
onto your existing pipe. Also you simply will not be able to return string
with the async nature of your API calls.
Pipe:
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import { TimeZoneService, TimeZone } from '../services/Global/timezone.service';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
@Pipe({ name: 'utcToText'})
export class UtcToTextPipe implements PipeTransform {
constructor(private _timezoneSvc : TimeZoneService) {}
transform(timezone: string, args?: any): Observable<string> {
// this assumes getTimeZonesLst() returns an Observable<TimeZone[]>
return this._timezoneSvc.getTimeZonesLst().pipe(
map((timeZones: TimeZone[]) => {
return timeZones.find(x => x.utc.indexOf(timezone) > -1).text;
})
);
}
}
Template:
<span>{{subscription.time_zone | utcToText | async}</span>
Here is a example async pipe in action derived from the exponential pipe example in the Angular documentation.
If you really need to use promises instead of observables for some reason:
import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core';
import { TimeZoneService, TimeZone } from '../services/Global/timezone.service';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
@Pipe({ name: 'utcToText'})
export class UtcToTextPipe implements PipeTransform {
constructor(private _timezoneSvc : TimeZoneService) {}
transform(timezone: string, args?: any): Promise<string> {
// this assumes getTimeZonesLst() returns an Observable<TimeZone[]>
return this._timezoneSvc.getTimeZonesLst()
.toPromise()
.then((timeZones: TimeZone[]) => {
return timeZones.find(x => x.utc.indexOf(timezone) > -1).text;
})
}
}
Hopefully that helps!