Subscribe http.post that is placed inside a promise Angular 6
There's seriously no need of Complicating things here.
I'll use async
/await
syntax here and for that, we'll have to work with Promise
s instead of Observable
s. Good thing is, we can leverage the toPromise()
method on an Observable
value to change it to a Promise
Focus on my comments in the code as well
Here's the implementation
For getCurrentUserToken
getCurrentUserToken() {
return firebase.auth().currentUser.getIdToken(true);
// This will already return a Promise<string>
// So no need to do a .then and then return from there.
}
For sendEmail
async sendEmail(email) {
// Since getCurrentUserToken returns a Promise<string> we can await it
const token = await this.authService.getCurrentUserToken();
// token will now have the Current User Token
const httpOptions = {
headers: new HttpHeaders({
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Basic server-Password',
})
};
let data = email
data['idToken'] = token
return this.http.post(this.apiServer + 'sendEmail', data, httpOptions).toPromise();
// Notice how we're calling the .toPromise() method here
// to change Observable into a Promise
}
How to use it?
This code will go in your Component Method where you were previously calling this.httpService.sendEmail
. DO MAKE SURE TO MARK THAT FUNCTION AS async
THOUGH.
// We can only await something in a function which is declared of type async
async sendEmail() {
try {
const data = await this.httpService.sendEmail(element);
// Since sendEmail again returns a Promise, I can await it.
console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
}
}