AngularJS $resource - adding array element to paramDefaults

Question

I'm using the twitch.tv api and using the Angular $resource factory. The endpoint I'm trying to use is: GET /channels/:channel. What I'm trying to do is get the channel for each array element. I tried /channels/users[1] but I know this is wrong. How can I get the :channel for all the users in the array? Or is there a better way to do this?

    (function() {
       angular.module('twitch', ['ngResource'])

       .controller('TwitchController', ['$scope', 'TwitchAPI', function($scope, TwitchAPI) {   
         $scope.getAPI = function(){
           var users = ["ESL_SC2", "OgamingSC2", "cretetion", "freecodecamp", "storbeck", "habathcx", "RobotCaleb", "noobs2ninjas"];  
           for(var i = 0; i < 8; i++){
           TwitchAPI.get({channel: users.i});
         }
       }
       $scope.online = [];
       $scope.offline = [];


  }])

  .factory('TwitchAPI', function TwitchAPIFactory($resource){
     return $resource('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/:channel', { callback: "JSON_CALLBACK" });
   });
})();

Answer 1

First, you don't need to use JSONP as the Twitch API supports CORS requests, you can configure your $resource like so

return $resource('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/:channel', {}, {
    get: {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: {
            Accept: 'application/vnd.twitchtv.v3+json',
            'Client-ID': 'Your client ID'
        }
    }
})

If you really want to use JSONP, you can't send header information in the request so it would have to look like

return $resource('https://api.twitch.tv/kraken/channels/:channel', {
    callback: 'JSON_CALLBACK',
    api_version: 3,
    client_id: 'your client ID'
}, {
    get: {
        method: 'JSONP'
    }
})

---

Doesn't look like there's a way to get more than one channel at a time (ref: https://github.com/justintv/Twitch-API/blob/master/v3_resources/channels.md) but you should be able to do so in parallel

You can create a simple array of promises like this

var promises = users.map(user => TwitchAPI.get({channel: user}).$promise);

You can then wait for all the promises to resolve using $q.all

$q.all(promises).then(channels => {
    angular.forEach(channels, channel => {
        // access each channel's properties here
        console.log('Channel name:', channel.display_name);
    });
});

Just don't forget to inject the $q service.