How to read pdf stream in angularjs

Question

I got the following PDF stream from a server:

How can this stream be read in AngularJS? I tried

Answer 1

The problem with using config.responseType is that the $http service still runs the default responseTransformer and attempts to convert the response to JSON. Also, you are sending the default accept headers. Here is an (untested) alternative:

$http.get('/retrievePDFFiles', {
    headers: { Accept: "application/pdf"},  
    transformResponse: function(data) {
        return new Blob([data], {type: 'application/pdf'});
    }}).success(function (data) {
           var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(data);
           window.open(fileURL);
    });