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Inserting Users

Inserting Users

This lesson explains how to insert a user into the database. It focuses on the UserService class and the backend implementation of the insertion operation.

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In the previous lesson, we looked at the typescript and HTML files. Now, let’s take a look at the implementation of UserService and the back-end implementation for the insertion of a user.

UserService

This class is in charge of communication with the back-end through the Web API and, because of that, it has to use Angular’s HTTP service.

Example

Here is the code in the /mean_frontend/src/app/services/users.service.ts file:

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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, URLSearchParams } from '@angular/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { Subject } from 'rxjs/Subject';
import { User } from '../model/user';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';
@Injectable()
export class UserService {
    
    constructor(private http: Http) { 
    }
    insertNewUser(user:User): Observable<any>{
        return this.http.post("http://localhost:3000/insertUser", user)
            .map((res:any) => {
                return res.json();
            })
            .catch((error:any) => {
                return Observable.throw(error.json ? error.json().error : error || 'Server error')
            }); 
    }
}

So, this class sends an HTTP POST ...