ODATA about ngx-resource

[troyanskiy]

Hello @beradrian .
I have never worked with ODATA. If you are 100% sure that your resource class name will be used in path, than yes, you can overwrite _getPath or getPath methods. Otherwise better to define path for each request separately.

[beradrian]

By default, the path will be the class name (or start with it). What's the difference between _getPath and getPath? Which one should I override in this case?

[beradrian]

And another question - what will be the best way to define the base URL across all resources?

[beradrian]

There's also the problem that _getPath is marked as private.

[troyanskiy]

@beradrian so the best for you will be override getPath method, not _getPath.
To define global base URL is better to use static class somewhere in your app component:

ResourceGlobalConfig.url = 'https://api.mydomain.com'

[beradrian]

And if I override getPath can I still use the path property of the annotation?

[beradrian]

I have the following

export class ODATAResource<R> extends Resource {

    @ResourceAction({
        path: '/{!id}'
    })
    get: ResourceMethod<{id: any}, R>;

    getPath(): string | Promise<string> {
        return "/" + this.getPlural();
    }

    private getName() {
        return (<any>this).constructor.name;
    }

    private getPlural() {
        return this.getName() + "s";
    }
}


@Injectable()
@ResourceParams()
export class UserResource extends ODATAResource<User> {
}

The problem is that when I call userResource.get({id: "1"}) the URL http://localhost/1 gets called instead of http://localhost/Users/1 as I would have expected. Am I missing something?

[troyanskiy]

In your case getPath is also overridden by method decorator

    @ResourceAction({
        path: '/{!id}'
    })
    get: ResourceMethod<{id: any}, R>;

[troyanskiy]

So to resolve that I think better to override getUrl, which will return full path with your class name. In that case you can decorate methods with path param.

export class ODATAResource<R> extends Resource {

    @ResourceAction({
        path: '/{!id}'
    })
    get: ResourceMethod<{id: any}, R>;

    getUrl(): string | Promise<string> {
        return super.getUrl() + "/" + this.getPlural();
    }

    private getName() {
        return (<any>this).constructor.name;
    }

    private getPlural() {
        return this.getName() + "s";
    }
}


@Injectable()
@ResourceParams()
export class UserResource extends ODATAResource<User> {
}

Final url is created by kind of getUrl() + getPath()

[beradrian]

I would have expected that the url/path of the method to be relative to the one of the class, which will also be relative to the global one.

Anyway, wanted to thank you for a great library.