I'm using angular 13 with typescript. I have a Service class containing a method that performs a get request against a rest api :

getProduct(productId): Observable<Product> {
    const productUrl = `http://localhost/api/products/${productId}`;
    return this.httpClient.get<Product>(productUrl);
}

and an array of products id like :

let productIds: string[] = ['1', '2', '3', '4', ...];

now I want to call the getProduct() method for all product ids and when calling for all ids finished, do another action. Actually, I want to detect when the process for all products id finishes. calling the getProduct() method in a for loop like what I did in the following code does not meet my requirement because it acts in an asynchronous manner and the code after the loop executes immediately while I want to wait for all products to finish! Here's the code for calling getProduct():

async getAllProducts() {
    for(const productId of this.productIds) {
      let product : Product = await this.productService.getProduct(productId).toPromise();
      .
      .
      // do some other actions
    }
}

and another method in the same class :

foo(){
    this.getAllProducts();
    // now I want the rest of the code in here to run only when getAllProducts() finish its work
}

Thanks in advance

CodePudding user response：

You can do it like this code below:

public getAllProducts(): Observable<any> {
  const products$: Array<Observable<any>> =
    (this.productIds || []).map((productId) =>
      this.productService.getProduct(productId)
    ) || [];
  return forkJoin(products$);
}

foo(){
  this.getAllProducts().subscribe((result) => {
    // now I want the rest of the code in here to run only when getAllProducts() finish its work
    console.log(result);
  });
}

Update: Add Promise

Or if you still want to using promises, then you can use code below:

public getAllProducts(): Promise<any> {
  const promises: Array<Promise<any>> = (this.productIds || []).map((productId) =>
    this.productService.getProduct(productId).toPromise()
  ) || []
  return Promise.all(promises);
}

async foo(){
  const products = await this.getAllProducts();
  console.log(products)
}