I'm going to use Angular2 to receive websocket incoming messages and update a webpage based on those received messages. Right now, I'm using a dummy echo websocket service and will replace it.
From my understanding, the function which receive websocket messages has to return an observable that is subscribed by a handler who will update the webpage. But I can't figure out how to return an observable.
Code snippet is attached below. The MonitorService
creates a websocket connection and return an observable containing the received messages.
@Injectable()
export class MonitorService {
private actionUrl: string;
private headers: Headers;
private websocket: any;
private receivedMsg: any;
constructor(private http: Http, private configuration: AppConfiguration) {
this.actionUrl = configuration.BaseUrl + 'monitor/';
this.headers = new Headers();
this.headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');
this.headers.append('Accept', 'application/json');
}
public GetInstanceStatus = (): Observable<Response> => {
this.websocket = new WebSocket("ws://echo.websocket.org/"); //dummy echo websocket service
this.websocket.onopen = (evt) => {
this.websocket.send("Hello World");
};
this.websocket.onmessage = (evt) => {
this.receivedMsg = evt;
};
return new Observable(this.receivedMsg).share();
}
}
Below is another component which subscribes to the observable returned from above and updates webpages correspondingly.
export class InstanceListComponent {
private instanceStatus: boolean
private instanceName: string
private instanceIcon: string
constructor(private monitor: MonitorService) {
this.monitor.GetInstanceStatus().subscribe((result) => {
this.setInstanceProperties(result);
});
}
setInstanceProperties(res:any) {
this.instanceName = res.Instance.toUpperCase();
this.instanceStatus = res.Status;
if (res.Status == true)
{
this.instanceIcon = "images/icon/healthy.svg#Layer_1";
} else {
this.instanceIcon = "images/icon/cancel.svg#cancel";
}
}
}
Now, I'm running into this error in the browser console
TypeError: this._subscribe is not a function