CRM App - Part 7 Delete Companies

Overview

Time: 5min

In this lesson, we will add the code required to allow deleting a company record.

Learning Outcomes:

• How to call a service method from a button click (via a component)

Add the delete method to the service

Time: 5min

src/app/company/company.service.ts

    deleteCompany(companyId: number): Observable<Company> {
    return this.httpClient.delete<Company>(`${this.API_BASE}/company/${companyId}`);
    }

Now, if you try to pipe through our error handler, Typescript will give you an error:

    deleteCompany(companyId: number): Observable<Company> {
        return this.httpClient.delete<Company>(`${this.API_BASE}/company/${companyId}`)
    .pipe(catchError(this.errorHandler));
    }

The reason is that errorHandler is returning an Observable of Company[], where deleteCompany is supposed to return an Observable of Company.

The best way to fix the issue is to make our errorHandler generic :

src/app/company/company.service.ts

• Change errorHandler function :

    private errorHandler<T>(error: Error): Observable<T> {
        console.error('implement custom errort handler here', error);
        return new Observable<T>();
    } 

• Change pipe(catchError) calls :

    getCompanies(): Observable<Company[]> {
        return this.httpClient.get<Company[]>(`${this.API_BASE}/company`) 
        .pipe(
            tap(x => console.log('TAP - Service', x)),
            catchError(e => this.errorHandler<Company[]>(e))
          );
    }

    deleteCompany(company: Company): Observable<Company> {
        return this.httpClient.delete<Company>(`${this.API_BASE}/company/${company.id}`)
        .pipe(catchError(e => this.errorHandler<Company>(e)));
    }

Add the delete method to the component

Time: 5min

src/app/company/company-list/company-list.component.ts

    deleteCompany(companyId: number){
    this.companyService.deleteCompany(companyId)
    .subscribe(() => this.getCompanies());
    }

Add 'id' to the Company model

Time: 2min

• Open the company model and add the 'id' property

src/app/company/company.ts

export interface Company {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    email: string;
    phone: number;
}

Wire up the delete button

Time: 5min

• Open the company-list template and add the (click) event the delete button.

src/app/company/company-list/company-list.component.html

<button class="btn btn-primary" (click)="deleteCompany(company.id)">Delete</button>