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I'm trying to display messages on a feed using the following template called feed.component.html

<div class="feed">

  <div *ngFor="let message of feed | async" class="message">

    <app-messages [chatMessage]="message"></app-messages>

  </div>

</div>

I keep getting the following error, and am unable to display the messages I send to the Firebase Database on my html chat page.

ERROR Error: InvalidPipeArgument: '[object Object]' for pipe
'AsyncPipe'

I've also got my feed.component.ts file as follows:

import { Component, OnInit, OnChanges } from '@angular/core';

import { ChatService } from '../services/chat.service';

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/observable';

import { ChatMessage } from '../models/chat-message.model';

import { AngularFireList } from 'angularfire2/database';



@Component({

  selector: 'app-feed',

  templateUrl: './feed.component.html',

  styleUrls: ['./feed.component.css']

})

export class FeedComponent implements OnInit, OnChanges {

  feed: AngularFireList<ChatMessage>;



  constructor(private chat: ChatService) { }



  ngOnInit() {

    console.log("feed init...")

    this.feed = this.chat.getMessages();

  }



  ngOnChanges() {

    this.feed = this.chat.getMessages();

  }



}

I've also got my messages.components.ts file below:

import { Component, OnInit, Input } from '@angular/core';

import { ChatService } from '../services/chat.service';

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/observable';

import { ChatMessage } from '../models/chat-message.model';



@Component({

  selector: 'app-messages',

  templateUrl: './messages.component.html',

  styleUrls: ['./messages.component.css']

})

export class MessagesComponent implements OnInit {



  @Input() chatMessage: ChatMessage;

  userName: string;

  userEmail: string;

  messageContent: string;

  timeStamp: Date = new Date();



  constructor() { }



  ngOnInit(chatMessage = this.chatMessage) {

    this.messageContent = chatMessage.message;

    this.timeStamp = chatMessage.timeSent;

    this.userEmail = chatMessage.email;

    this.userName = chatMessage.userName;

  }



}

Can anyone please tell me what's wrong here and what I can do to fix it?

What I did to solve the issue I was having was to change the following bit of code in the feed.component.ts file:

ngOnInit() {

    console.log("feed init...")

    this.feed = this.chat.getMessages().valueChanges(); // Added `valueChanges`

}

I believe it then gets the object from the Firebase Database, and then *ngFor iterates through the object to give me the content, userNames and timestamps for each message.

If there's something wrong with this answer, please let me know as I'm still quite new to this.

Cheers.

---UPDATE---

Another way I found was to use a service, where I used Subject as an observable to store my response. This made it accessible to all the components, which was easier than worrying about parent-child relationships.

Service File

const response = Subject();

const response$ = response.asObservable();



async getData() {

   await someApiCall.subscribe((element) => {

     this.response.next(element);

   })

 }

Component.ts

const data = ;

getDataFromService {

    this.data = async() => this.service.getDatata();

}

View

<div *ngFor="let i of data>

    <p>{{i | async}}</p>

</div>

AngularFireList is to store the reference path, so that you can perform push(), update() and remove(). You need to subscribe to the list to get the values. For example

feedRef: AngularFireList<any>;

feeds: Observable<ChatMessage>;



ngOnInit() {

    this.feedRef = this.db.list('chats');

    this.feeds = this.feedRef.valueChanges();

}

Beacuse you are getting reference from chat service you need to do

feeds: Observable<ChatMessage>;



ngOnInit() {

    this.feeds = this.chat.getMessages().valueChanges();

}