Angular2 - Where can be endpoints configured using InMemoryWebApiModule?

Question

I am following this tutorial (oficial Angular2 "Quick Start" tutorial)

At the end of it, there are couple of http requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE...), which, instead of calling a real server, are simulated using this lines in the app.module.ts:

// The HttpClientInMemoryWebApiModule module intercepts HTTP requests
// and returns simulated server responses.
// Remove it when a real server is ready to receive requests.
HttpClientInMemoryWebApiModule.forRoot(
  InMemoryDataService, { dataEncapsulation: false }
)

Here is an example of a HTTP Request made by the application:

  private heroesUrl = 'api/heroes';  // URL to web api

  /** GET heroes from the server */
  getHeroes (): Observable<Hero[]> {
    return this.http.get<Hero[]>(this.heroesUrl)
      .pipe(
        tap(heroes => this.log(`fetched heroes`)),
        catchError(this.handleError('getHeroes', []))
      );
  }

The question: is there any way to configure the endpoints expected by this InMemoryDataService? So, for instance, I could change the Url to api/heroes/getAll.

Answer 1

Following @Szarik recommendations, I follow this link, which has the answer. Actually, it's the official specification of the Library I am using: in-memory-web-api

Diving a little in the README.md, we reach this:

You can override the default parser by implementing a parseRequestUrl method in your InMemoryDbService.

The service calls your method with two arguments.

1. url - the request URL string
2. requestInfoUtils - utility methods in a RequestInfoUtilities object, including the default parser. Note that some values have not yet been set as they depend on the outcome of parsing.

Your method must either return a ParsedRequestUrl object or null|undefined, in which case the service uses the default parser. In this way you can intercept and parse some URLs and leave the others to the default parser.

So that was it!