AngularJS, $http and transformResponse

Question

I\'m getting a strange behaviour with AngularJS\'s $http and not really understanding how transformResponse works (the docs are a bit light on this one).

Answer 1

To get angular to not convert your data into an object you need to override the behavior of the default $httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse. It is actually an array of transformers. You could just set it to be empty: $http.defaults.transformResponse = []; Here is an example transformer I have used to convert 64-bit long ints to strings:

function longsToStrings(response) {
    //console.log("transforming response");
    var numbers = /("[^"]*":\s*)(\d{15,})([,}])/g;
    var newResponse = response.replace(numbers, "$1\"$2\"$3");
    return newResponse;
}

To add a transformer to the default list, say ahead of the JSON deserializer, you can do this:

$http.defaults.transformResponse.unshift(longsToStrings);