How to extract data from SafeSubscriber?

Question

I have to make an Angular application in which i get data from the back-end and display it on the front-end , but with some added hard-coded data.

My communication is between 2 files:

client.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import {HttpClient, HttpHeaders} from "@angular/common/http";
import {environment} from "../environments/environment";
import {catchError, map, Observable, of} from "rxjs";

const clientUrl = environment.apiUrl+'client';

@Injectable({providedIn: 'root'})

export class ClientService {

  public optional: any;
  constructor(private http: HttpClient) {}

  getText(): Observable<any> {
    console.log("it works!");
    return this.http.get(clientUrl+"/getText").pipe(map(res => {
        console.log(res);
        this.optional = res.toString();
    }));
  }
}

and the second one: client.component.ts

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import {ClientService} from "../client.service";

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

  public textResponse: any;
  constructor(public service: ClientService) {}
  ngOnInit(): void {}

  getText() {
    let text: any;
    this.textResponse = this.service.getText().subscribe();


    console.log(this.textResponse);
    text = this.textResponse + "This text is added from code.";
    console.log(text);
  }
}

When i call " this.http.get(clientUrl+"/getText") " I get a SafeSubscriber object, from which i managed to get the data displayed in the console using the method " .subscribe(...) " with a " console.log() " inside of it. However, i did not find any method to extract the data out of this subscribe.

As the code above shows, i have tried to use pipe and map, but the local variable is returned as [Object object], and when i print it in the console i get either undefined, either nothing.

This is what my code currently displays:

it works! [client.service.ts:33]
SafeSubscriber {initialTeardown: undefined, closed: false, _parentage: null, _finalizers: Array(1), isStopped: false, …} [client.component.ts]
[object Object]This text is added from code. [client.component.ts]
{text: 'This text is read from a file.'} [client.service.ts]

I have also tried all the suggestions found in questions below: angular 2 how to return data from subscribe Angular observable retrieve data using subscribe

Does anyone know a method in which i could get the data out of the Subscribe?

Answer 1

You are missing the return keyword when mapping the response, looking at the console.log , you need the text property

getText(): Observable<any> {
    console.log("it works!");
    return this.http.get(clientUrl+"/getText").pipe(map(res => {
        console.log(res);
        this.optional = res.toString(); 
        return res.text;
    }));
  }