Return a status to Angular when creating object

Question

In my app users can add movie titles to their watchlist. In my component I have this function:

createMovie(movie: Movie): void {
  this._dataService.createMovie<Movie>({'name': 'Star Wars', 'id': 111, 'description': 'A war in the Stars'})
  .subscribe((data) => this.movies.push(data),
  error => () => {
      'something went wrong';
  },
  () => {
      // console.log(this.movies);
  });
}

This has some dummy info for now.

In my service I have:

public createMovie<T>(movie: Movie): Observable<T> {
    return this.http.post<T>('/api/movies/', movie, {headers: this.getToken()});
}

So I pass the movie object and the token to the back-end.

In my MovieController.java I have:

@RestController
@RequestMapping("api/movies")
public class MovieController {

  @Autowired
  private MovieService movieService;

  @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.POST)
  public Movie createMovie(@RequestBody Movie movie){
      return movieService.createMovie(movie);
  }
}

And the createMovie function in the movieService:

@Override 
public Movie createMovie(Movie movie) {

    movieRepository.save(movie);

    User current_user = userService.getUser();
    current_user.addMovie(movie);
    userRepository.save(current_user);

    return movie;
}

This all works fine, but I would like to return a message to the angular application when a movie was successfully added to the list (database). I think I should use @ResponseBody for it, but I'm unsure how to return the movie object and a status text to the angular application.

So for example, when a movie is added I would like to return a message "movie.name was successfully added to your watchlist" from the back-end.

If you are asking about http status code, then you can use factory ResponseEntity.ok(movieService.createMovie(movie)) and your method return type would will be public ResponseEntity<Movie> createMovie(@RequestBody Movie movie), there are other factory methods in ResponseEntity for different Http status types. ResponseEntity.ok will return status code 200 — Zeronex
– Zeronex, Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 21:29
Hm I don't think that's what I'm thinking off. Maybe I should have said response body instead of response status. How can I return a response body with a message Movie.name was added to your watchlist. — Peter Boomsma
– Peter Boomsma, Commented Dec 3, 2017 at 21:36

Zeronex · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-03 21:53:57Z

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To return a message alongside your object you can define a new class like

public class RestResponse<T>{

    private String message;
    private T obj;

    public RestResponse(String message, T obj){
    this.message = message;
    this.obj = obj;
    }

}

then in your Rest controller you can do

Movie result =  movieService.createMovie(movie);

return new RestResponse<Movie>(String.format("%s was added to your watchlist", movie.name ), result);

answered Dec 3, 2017 at 21:53

Zeronex

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3 Comments

Peter Boomsma Over a year ago

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :). One tip, you should add getters/setters. I got an error and this question helped me out > stackoverflow.com/questions/32905917/… :)

Zeronex Over a year ago

@PeterBoomsma sorry and yeah I omitted getter/setter for brevity.

Zeronex Over a year ago

though json serializer can access private fields

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