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Chart data using sql server connection in Angular Chart component

21 Dec 2022 / 3 minutes to read
  • Create the chart data table using database. You can find the database table below,

Chart data

You can assign data from the data base to the chart. The series.dataSource property should be provided with the data from the server, it accepts JavaScript array of objects.

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  [
{ ID: 1, Date: "2000-06-11", Product_A: 10, Product_B: 40, Product_C: 80 },
{ ID: 2, Date: "2002-03-07", Product_A: 40, Product_B: 60, Product_C: 82 },
{ ID: 3, Date: "2004-03-06", Product_A: 15, Product_B: 80, Product_C: 119 },
{ ID: 4, Date: "2006-03-30", Product_A: 20, Product_B: 40, Product_C: 90 },
{ ID: 5, Date: "2008-03-08", Product_A: 5, Product_B: 60, Product_C: 100 },
{ ID: 6, Date: "2010-03-08", Product_A: 40, Product_B: 80, Product_C: 119 }
  ]
  • Using the Angular CLI, we have used to service to get data from database
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ng generate service chart

The command generates ChartService class in src/app/chart.service.ts as follows:

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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root',
})
export class ChartService {

  constructor() { }

}
  • Create a function call inside ngOnInit() to fetch the chart data from the service in app.componnet.ts file.
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ngOnInit(): void {
  this.getData();
}
 getData(): void {
this.chartService.get().subscribe(data => {
  this.data = data;
});
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import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
// import the ChartModule for the Chart component
import { ChartModule, DateTimeService, LineSeriesService, DateTimeCategoryService, StripLineService} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-charts';
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { ChartService } from './chart.service';
import { HttpClientModule, HttpClientJsonpModule   } from '@angular/common/http';


@NgModule({
  declarations: [
AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
BrowserModule, ChartModule, HttpClientModule , HttpClientJsonpModule,
AppRoutingModule
  ],
  providers: [ChartService,  DateTimeService, LineSeriesService, DateTimeCategoryService, StripLineService],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Angular HttpClient method returns an Observable.

chart.service.ts

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import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class ChartService {
  get(): Observable<any> {
return this.http.get('YOUR BACKEND URL');
  }
  constructor(private http: HttpClient) { }
  private handleError<T>(operation = 'operation', result?: T) {
return (error: any): Observable<T> => {
  console.error(error);
  console.log(`${operation} failed: ${error.message}`);
  return (result as any);
};
  }
}

app.component.ts

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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { ChartService } from './chart.service';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<ejs-chart id="chart-container" [primaryXAxis]='primaryXAxis'[primaryYAxis]='primaryYAxis' [title]='title'>
            <e-series-collection>
              <e-series [dataSource]='data' type='Line' xName='Date' [marker]='marker' yName='Product_A' name='Sales'></e-series>
              <e-series [dataSource]='data' type='Line' xName='Date' [marker]='marker' yName='Product_B' name='Sales'></e-series>
              <e-series [dataSource]='data' type='Line' xName='Date' [marker]='marker' yName='Product_C' name='Sales'></e-series>
            </e-series-collection>
          </ejs-chart>`,
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.sass']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  public primaryXAxis: object;
  public chartData: object[];
  public title: string;
  public primaryYAxis: object;
  public marker: object;
  public data: object[];
  constructor(private chartService: ChartService) { }
  ngOnInit(): void {
this.primaryXAxis = {
  valueType: 'DateTime',
  title: 'Sales Across Years',
  labelFormat: 'yMMM'
};
this.primaryYAxis = {
  title: 'Sales Amount in millions(USD)'
};
this.title = 'Average Sales Comparison';
this.marker = { visible: true };
this.getData();
  }
  getData(): void {
this.chartService.get().subscribe(data => {
  this.data = data;
});
  }
}

The below screenshot shows the chart, that can fetched the data from the server,

Formatted Chart data from database