Angular 4: InvalidPipeArgument: '[object Object]' for pipe 'AsyncPipe'

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Angular Problem Overview


i need your help, i'm trying to display some datas from my firebase but it trhows me an error like InvalidPipeArgument: '[object Object]' for pipe 'AsyncPipe'.


There is my service:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireDatabase } from 'angularfire2/database';

@Injectable()
export class MoviesService {

  constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) {}
  get = () => this.db.list('/movies');
}

There is my component:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { MoviesService } from './movies.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-movies',
  templateUrl: './movies.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./movies.component.css']
})
export class MoviesComponent implements OnInit {
  movies: any[];

  constructor(private moviesDb: MoviesService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.moviesDb.get().subscribe((snaps) => {
      snaps.forEach((snap) => {
        this.movies = snap;
        console.log(this.movies);
      });
   });
 }
}

And there is mmy pug:

ul
  li(*ngFor='let movie of (movies | async)')
    | {{ movie.title | async }}

Angular Solutions


Solution 1 - Angular

async is used for binding to Observables and Promises, but it seems like you're binding to a regular object. You can just remove both async keywords and it should probably work.

Solution 2 - Angular

You get this message when you've used async in your template, but are referring to an object that isn't an Observable.

So for examples sake, lets' say I had these properties in my class:

job:Job
job$:Observable<Job>

Then in my template, I refer to it this way:

{{job | async }}

instead of:

{{job$ | async }}

You wouldn't need the job:Job property if you use the async pipe, but it serves to illustrate a cause of the error.

Solution 3 - Angular

In your MoviesService you should import FirebaseListObservable in order to define return type FirebaseListObservable<any[]>

import { AngularFireDatabase, FirebaseListObservable } from 'angularfire2/database';

then get() method should like this-

get (): FirebaseListObservable<any[]>{
        return this.db.list('/movies');
    }

this get() method will return FirebaseListObervable of movies list

In your MoviesComponent should look like this

export class MoviesComponent implements OnInit {
  movies: any[];

  constructor(private moviesDb: MoviesService) { }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.moviesDb.get().subscribe((snaps) => {
       this.movies = snaps;
   });
 }
}

Then you can easily iterate through movies without async pipe as movies[] data is not observable type, your html should be this

ul
  li(*ngFor='let movie of movies')
    {{ movie.title }}

if you declear movies as a

movies: FirebaseListObservable<any[]>;

then you should simply call

movies: FirebaseListObservable<any[]>;
ngOnInit() {
    this.movies = this.moviesDb.get();
}

and your html should be this

ul
  li(*ngFor='let movie of movies | async')
    {{ movie.title }}

Solution 4 - Angular

I found another solution to get the data. according to the documentation Please check documentation link

In service file add following.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { AngularFireDatabase } from 'angularfire2/database';

@Injectable()
export class MoviesService {

  constructor(private db: AngularFireDatabase) {}
  getMovies() {
    this.db.list('/movies').valueChanges();
  }
}
   

In Component add following.

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { MoviesService } from './movies.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-movies',
  templateUrl: './movies.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./movies.component.css']
})
export class MoviesComponent implements OnInit {
  movies$;

  constructor(private moviesDb: MoviesService) { 
   this.movies$ = moviesDb.getMovies();
 }

In your html file add following.

<li  *ngFor="let m of movies$ | async">{{ m.name }} </li>

Solution 5 - Angular

You should add the pipe to the interpolation and not to the ngFor

ul
  li(*ngFor='let movie of (movies)') ///////////removed here///////////////////
    | {{ movie.title | async }}

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