How to use debounceTime in an angular component?

Question

My requirement is to perform reactive form field validations in such a way that the error messages are displayed only after the user stops typing.

How can I accompli

Answer 1

debounceTime waits for the time period mentioned and then calls the subscribe method. e.g; debounceTime(1000) will wait for 1 second. It is implemented through pipes.

this can be added to any subscribe method. Following is the working example

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Validators, AbstractControl } from '@angular/forms';
import { debounceTime } from 'rxjs/operators';

// dynamic forms
import { FormGroup, FormControl, FormBuilder } from '@angular/forms';


@Component({
    selector: 'app-customer-form',
    templateUrl: './customer-form.component.html',
})
export class CustomerFormComponent implements OnInit {

    emailMessage : string;

    private validationMessages = {
        required: "Email field is required",
        email: "Please enter a valid Email"
    }

    customerForm: FormGroup;

    customer = new Customer();

    constructor(private fb: FormBuilder) { }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.customerForm = this.fb.group({
            emailAddress: ['',
                [
                    Validators.required,
                    Validators.email
                ]
            ]
        })

        const emailControl = this.customerForm.get('emailAddress');
        emailControl.valueChanges.pipe( debounceTime(1000) ).subscribe(
            value => this.setEmailMessage(emailControl)
        )
    }

    setEmailMessage( c: AbstractControl ) : void {
        this.emailMessage = '';

        if ( (c.touched || c.dirty) && c.errors ) {
            this.emailMessage = Object.keys(c.errors).map( key => this.validationMessages[key]).join(' ');
        }

    }

}

in your template

    
    {{ emailMessage }}