How to get body from HttpErrorResponse in Angular 6?

Question

I have created a REST API call in my Angular app which downloads a file.

I am setting responseType to \'blob\' since I am expecting a file in response.

But w

Answer 1

Try this

if(error.error instanceof Blob) {
    error.error.text().then(text => {
      let error_msg = (JSON.parse(text).message);
      console.log(error_msg)
    });
} else {
    //handle regular json error - useful if you are offline
}