Angular rxjs Observable.timer is not a function with import

Question

In my angular application I recieve the following error:

ERROR TypeError: rxjs_Observable__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_4__.Observable.timer is not a function at SwitchMapSubscriber.project (hybrid.effect.ts:20) at SwitchMapSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/operators/switchMap.js.SwitchMapSubscriber._next (switchMap.js:34) at SwitchMapSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:54) at FilterSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/operators/filter.js.FilterSubscriber._next (filter.js:38) at FilterSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.Subscriber.next (Subscriber.js:54) at ScannedActionsSubject.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subject.js.Subject.next (Subject.js:47) at SafeSubscriber._next (store.js:332) at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.__tryOrUnsub (Subscriber.js:195) at SafeSubscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.SafeSubscriber.next (Subscriber.js:133) at Subscriber.push../node_modules/rxjs/_esm5/internal/Subscriber.js.Subscriber._next (Subscriber.js:77)

My code looks like the following:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Effect, Actions } from '@ngrx/effects';
import { of } from 'rxjs/observable/of';
import { map, catchError, switchMap } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/timer';

import * as hybridActions from '../actions/hybrid.action';
import { FleetStatusReportService } from '../../fleet-status-report.service';

@Injectable()
export class HybridEffects {
  constructor(
    private actions$: Actions,
    private fleetstatusreportService: FleetStatusReportService
  ) {}

  @Effect()
  loadHybrid$ = this.actions$.ofType(hybridActions.LOAD_HYBRID).pipe(
    switchMap(() => Observable.timer(0, 900000)),
    switchMap(() => {
      return this.fleetstatusreportService.getHybridPerformance().pipe(
        map(hybrid => new hybridActions.LoadHybridSuccess(hybrid)),
        catchError(error => of(new hybridActions.LoadHybridFail(error)))
      );
    })
  );
}

I've been looking around on the web and to me it looks like that the latest angular version would use

import 'rxjs/add/observable/timer';

however, it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

If you use latest angular with RxJS 6, then you need to do it like this:

import { map, catchError, switchMap } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { Observable, of, timer } from 'rxjs';

loadHybrid$ = this.actions$.ofType(hybridActions.LOAD_HYBRID).pipe(
  switchMap(() => timer(0, 900000)),
  switchMap(() => {
    return this.fleetstatusreportService.getHybridPerformance().pipe(
      map(hybrid => new hybridActions.LoadHybridSuccess(hybrid)),
      catchError(error => of(new hybridActions.LoadHybridFail(error)))
    );
  })
);

Basically there is no monkey patching of Observable anymore, now you need to import that timer function from rxjs and use that instead.

More about this change is here:

https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/blob/master/doc/pipeable-operators.md