Type 'Subscription' is not assignable to type 'Observable<SearchResult[]>' Angular 5 using HttpClient instead of Http

Question

I'm trying to use the new HttpClient class instead of the old Http.

I want to map over the data I get from the subscribe method, but get the below error. Any suggestions on why I get this?

Code:

export class YoutubeSearchService {
  constructor(
    private http: HttpClient,
    @Inject(YOUTUBE_API_KEY) private apiKey: string,
    @Inject(YOUTUBE_API_URL) private apiUrl: string,
  ) { }

  search(query: string): Observable<SearchResult[]> {
    const params: string = [
      `q=${query}`,
      `key=${this.apiKey}`,
      `part=snippet`,
      `type=video`,
      `maxResults=10`,
    ].join("&");
    const queryUrl = `${this.apiUrl}?${params}`;
    return this.http.get(queryUrl).subscribe(data => {
      data.map(item => {
        return new SearchResult({
          id: item.id.videoId,
          title: item.snippet.title,
          description: item.snippet.description,
          thumbnailUrl: item.snippet.thumbnails.high.url,
        });
      });
    });
  }
}

Error:

ERROR in src/app/services/youtube-search.service.ts(26,5): error TS2322: Type 'Subscription' is not assignable to type 'Observable<SearchResult[]>'.
  Property '_isScalar' is missing in type 'Subscription'.
src/app/services/youtube-search.service.ts(27,12): error TS2339: Property 'map' doesnot exist on type 'Object'.

Answer 1

Your search method is returning a subscription but the signature claims it should return an Observable<SearchResult[]>

To fix this either change the signature of your method or change the subscribe to map