angular 5 forkjoin example

Fork joins in angular 

Fork joins in angular are used to help to handle the concurrent request. Sometimes various data is gathered from multiple sources in a single request and data must be displayed only when complete data successfully arrives on the webpage from all sources. Partial data must be discarded. Observables provide a method called forkJoin() to “wrap” multiple Observables, and make multiple concurrent http.get() requests. the operation will be failed if all requests are not completed. Subscriber method work as a handler for all observables.

In this example, customers.json and employees.json are two data sourced which will be read in a single request.

Step 1: Create two new files customers.json and employees.json and put into assets folder.

[
    {"fname":"Jane","lname":"Jones","city":"San Francisco"},
    {"fname":"John","lname":"Smith","city":"New York"},
    {"fname":"Dave","lname":"Stone","city":"Seattle"},
    {"fname":"Sara","lname":"Edson","city":"Chicago"}
]

[
    {"fname":"Paolo","lname":"Friulano","city":"Maniago"},
    {"fname":"Luigi","lname":"Napoli","city":"Vicenza"},
    {"fname":"Miko","lname":"Tanaka","city":"Yokohama"},
    {"fname":"Yumi","lname":"Fujimoto","city":"Tokyo"}
]

Step 2: Create new service myservice

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';

@Injectable()
export class MyserviceService {

  constructor(private http : Http) {


   }
   getemployees()
   {
     return this.http.get('employees.json').map((res: Response) => res.json());
   }
   gettwodata()
   {
     return Observable.forkJoin(this.http.get('assets/employees.json').map((res: Response) => res.json()), this.http.get('assets/customers.json').map((res: Response) => res.json()));
   }
}

two arrays with employee and customer data will be returned by gettwodata service method.

Step 3: Create new component forkjoinex

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { MyserviceService } from '../myservice.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-forkjoinex',
  templateUrl: './forkjoinex.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./forkjoinex.component.css'],
  providers:[MyserviceService]
})
export class ForkjoinexComponent implements OnInit {

  public employee;
  public customer;
  constructor(private ser : MyserviceService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.getdata();
  }
  getdata()
  {
this.ser.gettwodata().subscribe(data => { 
  this.employee = data[0]
  this.customer = data[1]
  });
  }

}

<p>
  forkjoinex works!
</p>
<ul>
  <li *ngFor="let e of employee">
    {{ e.fname }} {{ e.lname }} lives in {{ e.city }}
  </li>
</ul>
<ul>
  <li *ngFor="let c of customer">
    {{ c.fname }} {{ c.lname }} lives in {{ c.city }}
  </li>
</ul>

Step 4: Pass reference into app.component.html

<app-forkjoinex></app-forkjoinex>

Step 5: Pass reference of newly created service into app.module.ts then run program

ng serve –open

forkjoin in angular 5 example