aspnet-core-signalr-angular/app/shared/services/data.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response, Headers } from '@angular/http';
//Grab everything with import 'rxjs/Rx';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import {Observer} from 'rxjs/Observer';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';

import { Match } from '../interfaces';
import { ConfigService } from './config.service';

@Injectable()
export class DataService {

    _baseUrl: string = '';

    constructor(private http: Http,
        private configService: ConfigService) {
        this._baseUrl = configService.getApiURI();
    }

    getMatches(): Observable<Match[]> {
        return this.http.get(this._baseUrl + 'matches')
            .map(this.extractData)
            .catch(this.handleError);
    }

    private extractData(res: Response) {
        let body = res.json();
        return body || {};
    }

    private handleError(error: any) {
        // In a real world app, we might use a remote logging infrastructure
        // We'd also dig deeper into the error to get a better message
        let errMsg = (error.message) ? error.message :
            error.status ? `${error.status} - ${error.statusText}` : 'Server error';
        console.error(errMsg); // log to console instead
        return Observable.throw(errMsg);
    }
}