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Angular Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882616
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up the Environment 2. Introducing Wire-Frames FREE CHAPTER 3. The Collector Service - Using Controllers to Collect Data 4. The Rating Service - Data Management 5. The Notifier Service - Creating Cron Jobs in Angular 6. The Evidence Tree Builder Service - Implementing the Business Logic 7. The Report Generator Service - Creating Controllers to Set Report Template 8. The Accuracy Manager Service - Putting It All Together

Getting the real news


So far we have used a hard-coded array inside our service as the source of news. Now it is the time to fetch the real headlines from news agency servers. The Angular HTTP service is in charge of communicating with servers over HTTP protocols. It sends HTTP requests from the application to the server and receives some responses from them. Then it is our job to do something with those responses inside our app. For example, we can find CNN top stories in the following URL: http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss

Let's hit that URL and get the headlines and replace them with the hard-coded array in our service. To renovate the current Collector service, open the file and make the following changes to it:

// app/collector/collector.service.ts 
import {Http} from '@angular/http'; 
import {Injectable} from "@angular/core"; 
 
@Injectable() 
export class CollectorService { 
  private url = 'https://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20title%2Clink%2Cdescription%20from%20rss...
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