Multiple service calls from an Effect

Tim Deschryver
Tim Deschryver
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A snippet on how to invoke multiple service calls within a single NgRx Effect.

Multiple service calls from an Effect

Use case

An action to fetch multiple entities at once, but the service has only an endpoint to fetch one entity at a time.

Solution

Use the RxJS merge operator to flatten all request streams and concurrently emit all values to a single output stream.

refresh$ = createEffect(() =>
this.actions$.pipe(
ofType(CustomerActions.refresh),
exhaustMap(({ customerIds }) =>
merge(
...ids.map((id) =>
this.customersService.getCustomer(id).pipe(
map(CustomerActions.getCustomerSuccess),
catchError((err) => of(CustomerActions.getCustomerFailed(id, err.message))),
),
),
),
),
),
);

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