Angular 2 Form Async validation ajax call on every keypress

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I am playing with angular 2 forms async validation, everything is working fine but then i realised ajax call is made to server on every key press inside input field which is not good for server, i tried many things but nothing works. So please help me to how to deal with this problem.

form: FormGroup;
username: FormControl;
password: FormControl;

constructor(private fb: FormBuilder, private http: Http) {
    this.username = new FormControl("", Validators.compose([
        Validators.required, 
        SignupValidators.CannotContainSpace]),
        this.usernameShouldBeUnique.bind(this));

    this.password = new FormControl("", Validators.compose([Validators.required]));

    this.form = fb.group({
        username: this.username,
        password: this.password
    });
}

Async validation Method:

usernameShouldBeUnique(formControl:FormControl) {

    return new Promise(resolve => {

        let params = new URLSearchParams();
        params.set('username', formControl.value);
        this.http.get('http://localhost:1667/api/users/signup/namecheck', { search: params })
                  .subscribe(data => resolve(null), 
                             error => resolve({ usernameShouldBeUnique: true })
                            );
    });
}

Okay so what do you want? How should it behave? It can play with observable. — micronyks, Aug 06 '16 at 08:19
I want to make a delay of 500ms between making request and don't make request if value is unchanged after 500ms — Godfather, Aug 06 '16 at 08:27
Yes I got it. You can play with Observable which will give you desire behavior. — micronyks, Aug 06 '16 at 08:27
Question seems to be duplicate. Answer is available in another thread: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45007974/1354879 — Balazs Zsoldos, Mar 06 '18 at 20:53
Possible duplicate of [How to add debounce time to an async validator in angular 2?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36919011/how-to-add-debounce-time-to-an-async-validator-in-angular-2) — Balazs Zsoldos, Mar 06 '18 at 20:54

micronyks · Answer 1 · 2016-08-06T08:58:54.317

1

You can play with Rxjs operators called debounceTime or delay and distinctUntilchanged as shown below,

usernameShouldBeUnique(formControl:FormControl) {



        let params = new URLSearchParams();
        params.set('username', formControl.value);

     return this.http.get('http://localhost:1667/api/users/signup/namecheck', { search: params })

     // .delay(300)                  <---- check this according to your need
        .debounceTime(300)         //<---- wait for 300ms pause in events
        .distinctUntilChanged()    //<---- ignore if next search term is same as previous


        .subscribe(data => resolve(null), 
                             error => resolve({ usernameShouldBeUnique: true })
                            );



}

edited Aug 06 '16 at 08:58

answered Aug 06 '16 at 08:38

micronyks

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i get this.http.get(...).debounceTime is not a function – Hans Feb 15 '17 at 14:23
import 'rxjs/add/operator/debounceTime'; – heringer Dec 28 '17 at 10:47
import 'rxjs/add/operator/distinctUntilChanged'; – heringer Dec 28 '17 at 10:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

Per this fine answer, you can use the surprisingly-handy setTimeout and clearTimeout to delay your requests:

private timeout;

usernameShouldBeUnique(formControl: FormControl) {
  MY_DELAY = 500;
  clearTimeout(this.timeout);
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    let params = new URLSearchParams();
    params.set('username', formControl.value);
    this.timeout = setTimeout(() => {
      this.http.get('http://localhost:1667/api/users/signup/namecheck', {
          search: params
        })
        .subscribe(data => resolve(null),
          error => resolve({
            usernameShouldBeUnique: true
          })
        );
    }, MY_DELAY);
  });
}

MY_DELAY will cause the request to wait 500 milliseconds for no more validation changes before proceeding.

Angular 2 Form Async validation ajax call on every keypress

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