I have asked this in the gitter room, but there were no responses, so I thought I might ask this here.

It looks like if we want to work with Rx.Observables, we'll have to use the EventEmitter class.

I was wondering how to do the following:

• My component calls a service passing something by parameter;
• My service modifies the parameter;
• My service returns an Observables so that my Component can observe and subscribe to it;

If I am using Rx.Observable (by importing it directly - import * as Rx from 'rx'), I can do the following:

// MyService

export class MyService {
    static doSomething(something: Object):Rx.Observable {
          return Rx.Observable.create(o => {
                  something.createdAt = Date.now();
                  o.onNext(something);
                  o.onCompleted();
          })
    }
}

And then in my component:

// MyComponent

class MyComponent {
     doSomethingHandler(something:Object):void {
           MyService.doSomething(something).subscribe(info => console.log(info));
     } 
}

So, that'd work.

But how to do it with the EventEmitter wrapper?

I saw it returns a Subject instead of an Observable, and it looks like I'd have to pass callbacks left and right to make it work - but I'd like to have the logic separated - having the component to only call the service, and this one would do the heavy work, returning something already manipulated to the component.