Angular2: Change detection inside observable

Question

Just I tried my first app with Angular2 RC3 (Using Angular-CLI) and I'm lost with this...

I have a problem with "Change detection" of variable word. I update the word variable inside the subscribe method of Observable, but no changes detected.

app.component.ts

import { Component, Inject, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { VoiceRecognitionService } from './voice-recognition.service';

@Component({
  moduleId: module.id,
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<h1>{{word}}</h1>`, // => No prints any update
  providers: [VoiceRecognitionService],
  styleUrls: ['app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {

  private voice: VoiceRecognitionService;
  public word: string = '';

  constructor( @Inject(VoiceRecognitionService) voiceRecognition: VoiceRecognitionService) {
    this.voice = voiceRecognition;
  }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.voice.record('ca')
      .subscribe(word => {
        console.log(word); // => Is printing well the new word
        this.word = `${word}...`; // => No changes detected
      });
  }
}

I remember in Angular 1 the use of $scope.$apply for similar cases and I search the same for Angular2 and I found NgZone.run, I tried to execute inside NgZone.run, but nothing.

What I'm doing wrong?

Thank you so much.

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Extra:

I share my service with the Observable:

voice-recognition.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx';

export interface IWindow extends Window {
  webkitSpeechRecognition: any;
}

@Injectable()
export class VoiceRecognitionService {

  constructor() {
    /* void */
  }

  /**
   * Record
   * @param {string} language - Language of the voice recognition
   * @returns {Observable<string>} - Observable of voice converted to string 
   */
  record(language: string): Observable<string> {
    return Observable.create((observer) => {
      const { webkitSpeechRecognition }: IWindow = <IWindow>window;
      const recognition = new webkitSpeechRecognition();

      recognition.onresult = (e) => observer.next(e.results.item(e.results.length - 1).item(0).transcript);
      recognition.onerror = observer.error;
      recognition.onend = observer.completed;

      recognition.continuous = true;
      recognition.interimResults = true;
      recognition.lang = language;
      recognition.start();
    });
  }
}

Answer 1

I assume the webkitSpeechRecognition API is not patched by Angulars zone.

To work around use zone.run(...) to force the execution back into Angulars zone explicitely:

@Injectable()
export class VoiceRecognitionService {

  constructor(private zone:NgZone) {
    /* void */
  }

  /**
   * Record
   * @param {string} language - Language of the voice recognition
   * @returns {Observable<string>} - Observable of voice converted to string 
   */
  record(language: string): Observable<string> {
    return Observable.create((observer) => {
      const { webkitSpeechRecognition }: IWindow = <IWindow>window;
      const recognition = new webkitSpeechRecognition();

      recognition.onresult = (e) => this.zone.run(() => observer.next(e.results.item(e.results.length - 1).item(0).transcript));
      recognition.onerror = (e) => this.zone.run(() => observer.error(e));
      recognition.onend = (e) => this.zone.run(() => observer.completed(e));

      recognition.continuous = true;
      recognition.interimResults = true;
      recognition.lang = language;
      recognition.start();
    });
  }
}

If the callbacks need a different number of parameters ((e)) please adjust the code accordingly. I just assumed one parameter for each.

The advantage of this approach is that the users of this service don't have to take additional measures.

Answer 2

You could eventually call explicitly the detectChanges method of the ChangeDetectorRef class:

constructor( @Inject(VoiceRecognitionService) voiceRecognition: VoiceRecognitionService,
    private cdr:ChangeDetectorRef) {
  this.voice = voiceRecognition;
}

ngOnInit() {
  this.voice.record('ca')
    .subscribe(word => {
      console.log(word); // => Is printing well the new word
      this.word = `${word}...`; // => No changes detected
      this.cdr.detectChanges(); // <---------
    });
}