I have a component:
export class MainpageComponent implements OnInit {
items: Observable<any[]>;
displayElement = false; //whether we will display the elemet or display a loading thing
constructor(db: AngularFireDatabase) {
this.items = db.list('questions').valueChanges();
}
}
I am currently displaying the data I receive inside a swiper in the HTML template with no problems:
<swiper>
<ng-template swiperSlide *ngFor="let item of items | async">
<div>
<h2> {{ item.prop1 }} </h2>
<h5> {{ item.prop2}} </h5>
</div>
</ng-template>
</swiper>
However, I now want to display the part above only after items have been loaded. And display something else (a loading indicator) while it loads. So I am planning something like this:
<div *ngIf="displayElement; else elseBlock">Items are not here yet</div>
<ng-template #elseBlock>
<!---- old code ------>
<swiper>
<ng-template swiperSlide *ngFor="let item of items | async">
<div>
<h2> {{ item.prop1 }} </h2>
<h5> {{ item.prop2}} </h5>
</div>
</ng-template>
</swiper>
<! --------------->
</ng-template>
My only problem is that I don't know how to update the displayElement variable value when items have been loaded from the firebase db (see first code block). I tried doing a .then(()={}) but valueChanges() does not return a promise.
Many thanks for any help.
valueChanges() is of type Observable, an Observable is a stream of events or data. To get the data from the database, you need to subscribe to the Observable. Therefore you have to use the subscribe() function:
db.list('questions').valueChanges().subscribe((res) =>{
console.log(res);
this.displayElement = true;
},error => {
console.log(error);
},() => {
console.log("completed");
});
The subscribe function takes 3 callbacks, the first one will be called whenever the Observable emits an item. Therefore you can change the value of displayElement after getting the first item from the database.
For reference: