How to throw an observable error manually?

Question

I am working on an Angular app in which I am making a rest call through HTTP as below:

login(email, password) {
    let headers = new Headers();
    headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });
    let body = `identity=${email}&password=${password}`;
    return this.http.post(`${this._configService.getBaseUrl()}/login`, body, options)
    .map((res: any) => {
        let response: any = JSON.parse(res._body);
        if (response.success == 0) {
          Observable.throw(response);  // not working
        } else if (response.success == 1) {
          console.log('success');
          localStorage.setItem('auth_token', 'authenticated');
          this.loggedIn = true;
          return response;
        }
    });
}

Basically I want my component to get response & error in my subscribe call, i.e.

this._authenticateService.login(this.loginObj['identity'],this.loginObj['password']).subscribe(
  (success)=>{      
    this.credentialsError=null;  
    this.loginObj={};  
    this._router.navigate(['dashboard']);    
  },
  (error)=>{
    console.log(error);        
    this.credentialsError=error;     
  }
);

but my API always returns success as it is defined that way.

How can I throw an error message if response.success == 0, so that it will be accessed inside error argument of my subscribe callback?

Answer 1

rxjs 6

import { throwError } from 'rxjs';

if (response.success == 0) {
  return throwError(response);  
}

rxjs 5

import { ErrorObservable } from 'rxjs/observable/ErrorObservable';

if (response.success == 0) {
  return new ErrorObservable(response);  
}

What you return with ErrorObservable is up to you