How to use Backend Object in FrontEnd TypeScript (MEAN Stack)

Question

Using MongoDB, express.js, angular4, node.js

A string I retrieve is well retrieved, but not the same as a full object...

account.service.ts (full, )

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Headers, Response } from '@angular/http';
import 'rxjs/Rx';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
const jwtDecode = require('jwt-decode');

import { User } from '../../models/user.model';
import { AuthService } from './auth.service';


@Injectable()
export class AccountService {
  constructor(private http: HttpClient,
              private authService: AuthService) {}

  user: any[];

  currentUser() {
    if(this.authService.isAuthenticated()){
      const token = localStorage.getItem('token');
      const decoded = jwtDecode(token);
      return decoded.user;
    }
  };

 getProfile() {
const id = this.currentUser();
return this.http.get("http://localhost:3000/user/" + id).
  map(
  (response: Response) => {
    const data = response.json();
    return data;
  }
)
  .catch(
    (error: Response) => {
      console.log(error);
      return Observable.throw(error.json());
    }
  )
}

user-profile.component.ts

export class UserProfileComponent implements OnInit {
  id: string;
  user: any;

  constructor(private account: AccountService) {}

  ngOnInit() {
    this.id = this.account.currentUser();
    this.user = this.account.getProfile()
      .subscribe(user => {
              this.user = user;
              return this.user;
            });
  }

  logUser() {
    console.log(this.id);
    console.log(this.user);
  }
}

user-profile.component.html

  <p>{{user}}</p>
  <p>User with ID {{id}} Loaded</p>
  <a (click)="logUser()">Log User Test</a>

HTML file shows:

[object Object]

User with ID 59ca916323aae527b8ec7fa2 Loaded

What I get from clicking "log User" link is the retrieved ID string and the user object:

59ca916323aae527b8ec7fa2 [{...}] //clicking this reveals all of the object's details.

But I can't make that step of getting those details and presenting them in the HTML as I successfully managed with the ID... I mean, {{user.anything}} doesn't fetch the user's data as it should

May I have some assistance?

Answer 1

Change your getProfile() to,

getProfile() {
    const id = this.currentUser();
    return this.http.get("http://localhost:3000/user/" + id).
      map(
      (response) => response.json()
    )
      .catch(
        (error: Response) => {
          console.log(error);
          return Observable.throw(error.json());
        }
      )
    }

Also, in ngOnInit() change this one,

this.user = this.account.getProfile()
      .subscribe((user) => {
              this.user = user;
            });

See if it gives you the right output.

EDIT

Change this one,

this.user = this.account.getProfile()
          .subscribe((user) => {
                  this.user = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(user));
                });

EDIT-2

this.user = this.account.getProfile()
              .subscribe((user) => {
                      this.user = JSON.stringify(user);
                      this.userObj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(user));
                      // also try, this.userObj = user; if above line didn't work
                    });

Define another property in component as ,

userObj: any;

Refer to the object in template as this

{{ userObj[0]?.email }}