I am using get API to request data from a specified resource.
$http.get('http:...').success(function() {
});
But I am getting error
"SyntaxError: Unexpected token r in JSON at position 1",
How we can handle this issue?
The .success and .error methods have been removed from AngularJS 1.6.
Instead of
$http.get(...)
.success(function(data, ...) {
...
})
.error(function(data, ...) {
...
});
use
$http.get(...).then(
function success(response) {
var data = response.data;
...
},function error(response) {
var data = response.data;
});
Override the default response transformation of JSON.parse
If the Content-Type is application/json or the response looks like JSON, The $http service will deserialize it using a JSON parser.
To avoid that, configure the transformResponse property to pass the response without any transformation:
var config = { transformResponse: angular.identity };
$http.get(url, config).then(function(response) {
console.log(response.data);
});
For more information, see AngularJS $http Service - Overriding the Default Transformations Per Request
Json is the default, you can set the expected reponse type to text:
$http.get('http:...', {responseType: "text"}).success(function(reponse) {
console.log(reponse);
});
More info can found in AngularJS docs
I have a google ad project which requires me to get multiple "setTargeting('', '');" from an object array on json file (via url) --> {"country": "Netherlands", "city": "Amsterdam" }. So far everything works; however, suppose the network fails, or requested JSON parse failed, etc - I'd like to pass an empty array to make sure that the slot will still show ads with no targeting.
What would be a good practise for it?
Advertisements.cachedCategoriesByUrl = {};
Advertisements.getCategories = function(categoriesUrl) {
var cachedCategories = Advertisements.cachedCategoriesByUrl[categoriesUrl];
if(cachedCategories){
return cachedCategories;
} else {
var getCategories = $.ajax({
url: categoriesUrl,
data: { format: 'json' },
error: function(jqXHR, status, thrownError) {
=> I'd like to pass an empty array so the slot will show
ads with no targetting set.
However this doesn't seem to be working.
Do I need to do callback?
}
});
Advertisements.cachedCategoriesByUrl[categoriesUrl] = getCategories;
return getCategories;
}
}
Note:
return getCategories runs before the ajax call finishes. How do I make sure that return getCategories gets my error update(I want to pass an empty array if JSON request fails or invalid). Sorry I am in the learning process.
Solved it with this:
$.ajax({
url: ad.categoriesUrl
}).then(function(data){
Advertisements.advertisementSlot(ad, data);
}, function(data){
data = {};
Advertisements.advertisementSlot(ad, data);
});
I'm using angularjs 1.2.0 with $resource. I would like to have some PUT/POST instance actions that doesn't send the whole object to the server but only some fields and in some cases totally no data.
Is it possible? I searched everywhere but couldn't find anything
UPDATE:
It also happens with DELETE requests:
Given this code:
group.$deleteChatMessage({messageId: message.id}, function(){
var i = _.indexOf(group.chat, message);
if(i !== -1) group.chat.splice(i, 1);
});
The request is this:
See how the whole model is sent (under "Request Payload").
This is the resource:
var Group = $resource(API_URL + '/api/v1/groups/:gid',
{gid:'#_id', messageId: '#_messageId'},
{
deleteChatMessage: {method: "DELETE", url: API_URL + '/api/v1/groups/:gid/chat/:messageId'},
});
This works for me:
$resource(SERVER_URL + 'profile.json',
{},
{
changePassword :
{
method : 'POST',
url : SERVER_URL + 'profile/changePassword.json',
// Don't sent request body
transformRequest : function(data, headersGetter)
{
return '';
}
}
});
You could customise exaclty what is sent to the server by implementing your own code in the transformRequest function. In my example I was adding a new function to the REST client, but you can also overwrite existing functions. Note that 'transformRequest' is only available in version 1.1+
You can use $http for that specifically. However, I have one case I use for a project that might help. Also my example is returning an array from the server but you can change that.
In my service:
app.factory('mySearch', ['$resource', function($resource) {
return $resource('/api/items/:action', {}, {
search: { method: 'POST', isArray: true,
params: { action: 'search' }
}
});
}
]);
In my Controller:
I can build up custom params to post to server or if its only two fields I need from a table row the user selects.
var one = "field_one";
var two = "field_two";
$scope.search({one: one, two: two});
Then I can post those through an event and pass the custom params
$scope.search = function(customParams) {
mySearch.search({query: customParams}, function(data) {
$scope.items = data;
}, function(response) {
console.log("Error: " + response.status);
})
};
Hopefully this was some help. Let me know if this is close to what your looking for and I can help more.
POST
DELETE
I just want to send the following JSONobjects to my API backend:
{
"username":"alex",
"password":"password"
}
So I wrote the following function, using Angular $http:
$http(
{
method: 'POST',
url: '/api/user/auth/',
data: '{"username":"alex", "password":"alex"}',
})
.success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Do Stuff
})
.error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Do Stuff
});
I read in documentation for POST method that Content-Type header will be automatically set to "application/json".
But I realized that the content-type I receive on my backend (Django+Tastypie) api is "text/plain".
This cause my API to not respond properly to this request. How should I manage this content-type?
The solution I've moved forward with is to always initialize models on the $scope to an empty block {} on each controller. This guarantees that if no data is bound to that model then you will still have an empty block to pass to your $http.put or $http.post method.
myapp.controller("AccountController", function($scope) {
$scope.user = {}; // Guarantee $scope.user will be defined if nothing is bound to it
$scope.saveAccount = function() {
users.current.put($scope.user, function(response) {
$scope.success.push("Update successful!");
}, function(response) {
$scope.errors.push("An error occurred when saving!");
});
};
}
myapp.factory("users", function($http) {
return {
current: {
put: function(data, success, error) {
return $http.put("/users/current", data).then(function(response) {
success(response);
}, function(response) {
error(response);
});
}
}
};
});
Another alternative is to use the binary || operator on data when calling $http.put or $http.post to make sure a defined argument is supplied:
$http.put("/users/current", data || {}).then(/* ... */);
Try this;
$http.defaults.headers.post["Content-Type"] = "application/json";
$http.post('/api/user/auth/', data).success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Do Stuff
})
.error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
// Do Stuff
});
I have some old code that is making an AJAX POST request through jQuery's post method and looks something like this:
$.post("/foo/bar", requestData,
function(responseData)
{
//do stuff with response
}
requestData is just a javascript object with some basic string properties.
I'm in the process of moving our stuff over to use Angular, and I want to replace this call with $http.post. I came up with the following:
$http.post("/foo/bar", requestData).success(
function(responseData) {
//do stuff with response
}
});
When I did this, I got a 500 error response from the server. Using Firebug, I found that this sent the request body like this:
{"param1":"value1","param2":"value2","param3":"value3"}
The successful jQuery $.post sends the body like this:
param1=value1¶m2=value2¶m3=value3
The endpoint I am hitting is expecting request parameters and not JSON. So, my question is is there anyway to tell $http.post to send up the javascript object as request parameters instead of JSON? Yes, I know I could construct the string myself from the object, but I want to know if Angular provides anything for this out of the box.
I think the params config parameter won't work here since it adds the string to the url instead of the body but to add to what Infeligo suggested here is an example of the global override of a default transform (using jQuery param as an example to convert the data to param string).
Set up global transformRequest function:
var app = angular.module('myApp');
app.config(function ($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = function(data){
if (data === undefined) {
return data;
}
return $.param(data);
}
});
That way all calls to $http.post will automatically transform the body to the same param format used by the jQuery $.post call.
Note you may also want to set the Content-Type header per call or globally like this:
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.post['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8';
Sample non-global transformRequest per call:
var transform = function(data){
return $.param(data);
}
$http.post("/foo/bar", requestData, {
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'},
transformRequest: transform
}).success(function(responseData) {
//do stuff with response
});
If using Angular >= 1.4, here's the cleanest solution I've found that doesn't rely on anything custom or external:
angular.module('yourModule')
.config(function ($httpProvider, $httpParamSerializerJQLikeProvider){
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest.unshift($httpParamSerializerJQLikeProvider.$get());
$httpProvider.defaults.headers.post['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8';
});
And then you can do this anywhere in your app:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: '/requesturl',
data: {
param1: 'value1',
param2: 'value2'
}
});
And it will correctly serialize the data as param1=value1¶m2=value2 and send it to /requesturl with the application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8 Content-Type header as it's normally expected with POST requests on endpoints.
From AngularJS documentation:
params – {Object.} – Map of strings or objects which
will be turned to ?key1=value1&key2=value2 after the url. If the
value is not a string, it will be JSONified.
So, provide string as parameters. If you don't want that, then use transformations. Again, from the documentation:
To override these transformation locally, specify transform functions
as transformRequest and/or transformResponse properties of the config
object. To globally override the default transforms, override the
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest and
$httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse properties of the
$httpProvider.
Refer to documentation for more details.
Use jQuery's $.param function to serialize the JSON data in requestData.
In short, using similar code as yours:
$http.post("/foo/bar",
$.param(requestData),
{
headers:
{
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
}
}
).success(
function(responseData) {
//do stuff with response
}
});
For using this, you have to include jQuery in your page along with AngularJS.
Note that as of Angular 1.4, you can serialize the form data without using jQuery.
In the app.js:
module.run(function($http, $httpParamSerializerJQLike) {
$http.defaults.transformRequest.unshift($httpParamSerializerJQLike);
});
Then in your controller:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: myUrl',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: myData
});
This might be a bit of a hack, but I avoided the issue and converted the json into PHP's POST array on the server side:
$_POST = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
I have problems as well with setting custom http authentication because $resource cache the request.
To make it work you have to overwrite the existing headers by doing this
var transformRequest = function(data, headersGetter){
var headers = headersGetter();
headers['Authorization'] = 'WSSE profile="UsernameToken"';
headers['X-WSSE'] = 'UsernameToken ' + nonce
headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
};
return $resource(
url,
{
},
{
query: {
method: 'POST',
url: apiURL + '/profile',
transformRequest: transformRequest,
params: {userId: '#userId'}
},
}
);
I hope I was able to help someone. It took me 3 days to figure this one out.
Modify the default headers:
$http.defaults.headers.post["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8";
Then use JQuery's $.param method:
var payload = $.param({key: value});
$http.post(targetURL, payload);
.controller('pieChartController', ['$scope', '$http', '$httpParamSerializerJQLike', function($scope, $http, $httpParamSerializerJQLike) {
var data = {
TimeStamp : "2016-04-25 12:50:00"
};
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: 'serverutilizationreport',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: $httpParamSerializerJQLike(data),
}).success(function () {});
}
]);
Quick adjustment - for those of you having trouble with the global configuration of the transformRequest function, here's the snippet i'm using to get rid of the Cannot read property 'jquery' of undefined error:
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = function(data) {
return data != undefined ? $.param(data) : null;
}
You can also solve this problem without changing code in server, changing header in $http.post call and use $_POST the regular way. Explained here: http://victorblog.com/2012/12/20/make-angularjs-http-service-behave-like-jquery-ajax/
I found many times problematic behavior of this whole. I used it from express (without typings) and the bodyParser (with the dt~body-parser typings).
I didn't try to upload a file, instead simply to interpret a JSON given in a post string.
The request.body was simply an empty json ({}).
After a lot of investigation finally this worked for me:
import { json } from 'body-parser';
...
app.use(json()); <-- should be defined before the first POST handler!
It may be also important to give the application/json content type in the request string from the client side.
Syntax for AngularJS v1.4.8 + (v1.5.0)
$http.post(url, data, config)
.then(
function (response) {
// success callback
},
function (response) {
// failure callback
}
);
Eg:
var url = "http://example.com";
var data = {
"param1": "value1",
"param2": "value2",
"param3": "value3"
};
var config = {
headers: {
'Content-Type': "application/json"
}
};
$http.post(url, data, config)
.then(
function (response) {
// success callback
},
function (response) {
// failure callback
}
);