Angular 6: How to set response type as text while making http call

Question

I trying to make http request to the spring rest API.. API returns a string value (\"success\" or \"fail\")... but I dont know how to set the response type as string value w

Answer 1

Have you tried not setting the responseType and just type casting the response?

This is what worked for me:

/**
 * Client for consuming recordings HTTP API endpoint.
 */
@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class DownloadUrlClientService {
  private _log = Log.create('DownloadUrlClientService');


  constructor(
    private _http: HttpClient,
  ) {}

  private async _getUrl(url: string): Promise {
    const httpOptions = {headers: new HttpHeaders({'auth': 'false'})};
    // const httpOptions = {headers: new HttpHeaders({'auth': 'false'}), responseType: 'text'};
    const res = await (this._http.get(url, httpOptions) as Observable).toPromise();
    // const res = await (this._http.get(url, httpOptions)).toPromise();
    return res;
  }
}