Services work like data models

* models done

* models with relationships done

* version bump

* version bump

demo/app/authors/authors.service.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
-import { Service, ISchema } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
+import { Service, ISchema, Resource, ICollection } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
+import { Book } from '../books/books.service';
 
 @Injectable()
-export class AuthorsService extends Service {
+export class AuthorsService extends Service<Author> {
+    public resource = Author;
     public type = 'authors';
     public schema: ISchema = {
         attributes: {
@@ -22,3 +24,25 @@ export class AuthorsService extends Service {
         }
     };
 }
+
+export class Author extends Resource {
+    public attributes: {
+        name: string,
+        date_of_birth: string,
+        date_of_death: string,
+        created_at: string,
+        updated_at: string
+    };
+
+    public getName() {
+        return this.attributes.name;
+    }
+
+    public books(): ICollection<Book> {
+        return <ICollection<Book>>this.relationships.books.data;
+    }
+
+    public photos()/*: ICollection<Photo>*/ {
+        return <ICollection>this.relationships.photos.data;
+    }
+}

demo/app/authors/components/author.component.html

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ <h4>Books</h4>
             <th>Date Published</th>
         </tr>
     </thead>
-    <tr *ngFor="let book of author.relationships.books.data.$toArray">
+    <tr *ngFor="let book of author.books().$toArray">
         <td>{{ book.id }}</td>
         <td>
             <a>{{ book.attributes.title  }}</a>

demo/app/authors/components/author.component.ts

@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ import { Resource, IRelationship, ICollection } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
 
 import { forEach } from '../../../foreach';
 import { PhotosService } from '../../photos/photos.service';
-import { AuthorsService } from '../authors.service';
+import { AuthorsService, Author } from '../authors.service';
 
 @Component({
     selector: 'demo-author',
     templateUrl: './author.component.html'
 })
 export class AuthorComponent {
-    public author: Resource;
+    public author: Author;
     public relatedbooks: Array<Resource>;
 
     public constructor(

demo/app/books/books.service.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
-import { Service, ISchema } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
+import { Service, ISchema, Resource, ICollection } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
+import { Author } from '../authors/authors.service';
+import { Photo } from '../photos/photos.service';
 
 @Injectable()
 export class BooksService extends Service {
@@ -33,3 +35,20 @@ export class BooksService extends Service {
         }
     }
 }
+
+export class Book extends Resource {
+    public attributes: {
+        date_published: { },
+        title: { presence: true, length: { maximum: 96 } },
+        created_at: { },
+        updated_at: { }
+    };
+
+    public author(): Author {
+        return <Author>this.relationships.authors.data;
+    }
+
+    public photos(): ICollection<Photo> {
+        return <ICollection<Photo>>this.relationships.photos.data;
+    }
+}

demo/app/photos/photos.service.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
-import { Service, ISchema } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
+import { Service, ISchema, Resource } from 'ngx-jsonapi';
 
 @Injectable()
 export class PhotosService extends Service {
@@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ export class PhotosService extends Service {
         }
     };
 }
+
+export class Photo extends Resource {
+    public attributes: {
+        title: {},
+        uri: {},
+        imageable_id: {},
+        created_at: {},
+        updated_at: {}
+    };
+}

src/core.ts

@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@ export class Core {
         };
     }
 
-    public registerService(clase: Service): Service | false {
+    public registerService<R extends Resource>(clase: Service): Service<R> | false {
         if (clase.type in this.resourceServices) {
             return false;
         }
         this.resourceServices[clase.type] = clase;
 
-        return clase;
+        return <Service<R>>clase;
     }
 
     public getResourceService(type: string): Service {

src/interfaces/collection.ts

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import { Resource } from '../resource';
 import { IPage } from './page';
 import { IDataResource } from './data-resource';
 
-export interface ICollection extends Array<Resource> {
+export interface ICollection<R extends Resource = Resource> extends Array<Resource> {
     $length: number;
-    $toArray: Array<Resource>;
+    $toArray: Array<R>;
     $is_loading: boolean;
     $source: 'new' | 'memory' | 'store' | 'server';
     $cache_last_update: number;

src/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ngx-jsonapi",
-  "version": "0.1.0-rc.3",
+  "version": "0.2.0",
   "description": "JSON API library for Angular",
   "module": "ngx-jsonapi/@ngx-jsonapi/ngx-jsonapi.es5.js",
   "es2015": "ngx-jsonapi/@ngx-jsonapi/ngx-jsonapi.js",

src/service.ts

@@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ import {
     IAttributes,
 } from './interfaces';
 
-export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
+export class Service<R extends Resource = Resource> extends ParentResourceService {
     public schema: ISchema;
     public cachememory: ICacheMemory;
     public cachestore: CacheStore;
     public type: string;
+    public resource = Resource;
 
     private path: string; // without slashes
     private smartfiltertype = 'undefined';
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
     Register schema on Core
     @return true if the resource don't exist and registered ok
     */
-    public register(): Service | false {
+    public register(): Service<R> | false {
         if (Core.me === null) {
             throw new Error(
                 'Error: you are trying register `' +
@@ -46,21 +47,21 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
         this.cachestore = new CacheStore();
         this.schema = { ...{}, ...Base.Schema, ...this.schema };
 
-        return Core.me.registerService(this);
+        return Core.me.registerService<R>(this);
     }
 
-    public newResource(): Resource {
-        let resource: Resource = new Resource();
+    public newResource(): R {
+        let resource = new this.resource();
 
-        return resource;
+        return <R>resource;
     }
 
-    public new<T extends Resource>(): T {
+    public new(): R {
         let resource = this.newResource();
         resource.type = this.type;
         resource.reset();
 
-        return <T>resource;
+        return resource;
     }
 
     public getPrePath(): string {
@@ -70,13 +71,13 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
         return this.path ? this.path : this.type;
     }
 
-    public get<T extends Resource>(
+    public get(
         id: string,
         params?: IParamsResource | Function,
         fc_success?: Function,
         fc_error?: Function
-    ): T {
-        return <T>this.__exec({
+    ): R {
+        return <R>this.__exec({
             id: id,
             params: params,
             fc_success: fc_success,
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
         });
     }
 
-    protected __exec(exec_params: IExecParams): Resource | ICollection | void {
+    protected __exec(exec_params: IExecParams): R | ICollection | void {
         let exec_pp = super.proccess_exec_params(exec_params);
 
         switch (exec_pp.exec_type) {
@@ -146,7 +147,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
         params: IParamsResource,
         fc_success,
         fc_error
-    ): Resource {
+    ): R {
         // http request
         let path = new PathBuilder();
         path.applyParams(this, params);
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
                 }
             );
 
-            return resource;
+            return <R>resource;
         } else if (Core.injectedServices.rsJsonapiConfig.cachestore_support) {
             // CACHESTORE
             this.getService()
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
             this.getGetFromServer(path, fc_success, fc_error, resource);
         }
 
-        return resource;
+        return <R>resource;
     }
 
     private getGetFromServer(path, fc_success, fc_error, resource: Resource) {
@@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ export class Service extends ParentResourceService {
     /*
     @return This resource like a service
     */
-    public getService<T extends Service>(): T {
+    public getService<T extends Service<R>>(): T {
         return <T>(Converter.getService(this.type) || this.register());
         // let serv = Converter.getService(this.type);
         // if (serv) {