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Angular Services

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Angular Services

Overview of this book

A primary concern with modern day applications is that they need to be dynamic, and for that, data access from the server side, data authentication, and security are very important. Angular leverages its services to create such state-of-the-art dynamic applications. This book will help you create and design customized services, integrate them into your applications, import third-party plugins, and make your apps perform better and faster. This book starts with a basic rundown on how you can create your own Angular development environment compatible with v2 and v4. You will then use Bootstrap and Angular UI components to create pages. You will also understand how to use controllers to collect data and populate them into NG UIs. Later, you will then create a rating service to evaluate entries and assign a score to them. Next, you will create "cron jobs" in NG. We will then create a crawler service to find all relevant resources regarding a selected headline and generate reports on it. Finally, you will create a service to manage accuracy and provide feedback about troubled areas in the app created. This book is up to date for the 2.4 release and is compatible with the 4.0 release as well, and it does not have any code based on the beta or release candidates.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Angular Services
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

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...