Repeat request (Angular2 - http.get) n seconds after finished

Question

I played around with angular2 and got stuck after a while.

Using http.get works fine for a single request, but I want to poll live-data every 4 seconds,

Answer 1

A minor rework of the answer from Can Nguyen, in case you want polling delay to depend on previous request completion status.

var pollData = () => request()   // make request
    .do(handler, errorHandler)   // handle response data or error
    .ignoreElements()            // ignore request progress notifications
    .materialize();              // wrap error/complete notif-ns into Notification

pollData()                            // get our Observable...
  .expand(                            // ...and recursively map...
    (n) => Rx.Observable              // ...each Notification object...
      .timer(n.error ? 1000 : 5000)   // ...(with delay depending on previous completion status)...
      .concatMap(() => pollData()))   // ...to new Observable
  .subscribe();

Plunk.

Or alternatively:

var pollData = () => request()             // make request
    .last()                                // take last progress value
    .catch(() => Rx.Observable.of(null));  // replace error with null-value

pollData()
  .expand(
    (data) => Rx.Observable
      .timer(data ? 5000 : 1000)           // delay depends on a value
      .concatMap(() => pollData()))
  .subscribe((d) => {console.log(d);});    // can subscribe to the value stream at the end

Plunk.