Angular - Set headers for every request

Question

I need to set some Authorization headers after the user has logged in, for every subsequent request.

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To set headers for a particular request,

Answer 1

For Angular 5 and above, we can use HttpInterceptor for generalizing the request and response operations. This helps us avoid duplicating:

1) Common headers

2) Specifying response type

3) Querying request

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import {
  HttpRequest,
  HttpHandler,
  HttpEvent,
  HttpInterceptor,
  HttpResponse,
  HttpErrorResponse
} from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/do';

@Injectable()
export class AuthHttpInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {

  requestCounter: number = 0;
  constructor() {
  }

  intercept(request: HttpRequest, next: HttpHandler): Observable> {

    request = request.clone({
      responseType: 'json',
      setHeaders: {
        Authorization: `Bearer token_value`,
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8'
      }
    });

    return next.handle(request).do((event: HttpEvent) => {
      if (event instanceof HttpResponse) {
        // do stuff with response if you want
      }
    }, (err: any) => {
      if (err instanceof HttpErrorResponse) {
        // do stuff with response error if you want
      }
    });
  }
}

We can use this AuthHttpInterceptor class as a provider for the HttpInterceptors:

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app.routing-module';
import { AuthHttpInterceptor } from './services/auth-http.interceptor';
import { HttpClientModule, HTTP_INTERCEPTORS } from '@angular/common/http';
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    HttpClientModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule,
  ],
  providers: [
    {
      provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
      useClass: AuthHttpInterceptor,
      multi: true
    }
  ],
  exports: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {
}