How can I update my subscribe data?

Question

I have a service that makes some http call to a rest api. On my component I have a subscribe to it. How can I update the data on the subscribe without having to make a new call to the service?

Answer 1

The question is not quite clear, but I think I can infer enough to hopefully offer an answer.

Let's assume you have an observable of a User object that has an OrganizationId property on it, and you want an observable of the Organization object associated with that OrganizationId. You want it to update when the user updates, right?

This is what you would want to use the flatMap operator for. Assume our organizationService has a byId$ method that takes in the OrganizationId and returns an observable from the http.post() method.

organization$ = user$
    .flatMap(user => organizationService.byId$(user.OrganizationId));

You can think of flatMap as similar to map in that it will take one value, and turn it into another based on the callback that you pass to it. The difference is that if you used the normal map in this way, you would end up with an observable of an observable. flatMap will unwrap the observable that is returned to it so you just have an observable of your desired object.