Angular7 Http Client

Angular7 Http Client

HţtpClient will help us to collect external data, post to it, etc. To make use of the http service we must import the http module. Let's consider an example of how to make use of the http service.

We need to import the module in app.module.ts to start using the http service, as shown below –

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppRoutingModule , RoutingComponent} from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { NewCmpComponent } from './new-cmp/new-cmp.component';
import { ChangeTextDirective } from './change-text.directive';
import { SqrtPipe } from './app.sqrt';
import { MyserviceService } from './myservice.service';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';

@NgModule({
   declarations: [
      SqrtPipe,
      AppComponent,
      NewCmpComponent,
      ChangeTextDirective,
      RoutingComponent
   ],
   imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      AppRoutingModule,
      HttpClientModule
   ],
   providers: [MyserviceService],
   bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

If you see the highlighted code, we imported the httpClientModule from @angular / common / http and the same is added to the import array as well.

We will retrieve data from the server using the above declared httpclient module. We will do that within a service that we created in the preceding chapter and use the data within the components we want.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
@Injectable({
   providedIn: 'root'
})
export class MyserviceService {
   private finaldata = [];
   private apiurl = "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users";
   constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }
   getData() {
      return this.http.get(this.apiurl);
   }
}

There is an added method called getData which returns the fetched data for the given url.

The getData method is called the following from app.component.ts −

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { MyserviceService } from './myservice.service';
@Component({
   selector: 'app-root',
   templateUrl: './app.component.html',
   styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
   title = 'Angular 7 Project!';
   public persondata = [];
   constructor(private myservice: MyserviceService) {}
   ngOnInit() {
      this.myservice.getData().subscribe((data) => {
         this.persondata = Array.from(Object.keys(data), k=>data[k]);
         console.log(this.persondata);
      });
   }
}

We call the getData method which returns data of an observable type. On it is used the subscribe method which has an arrow function with the data that we need.

Let us use the data as follows in app.component.html –

<h3>Users Data</h3>
<ul>
   <li *ngFor="let item of persondata; let i = index"<
      {{item.name}}
   </li>
</ul>