res.json() is a not a function in HttpClient Angular 2

Question

I was using Angular Http module before and the method res.json() used to work fine. I have recently tried HttpClient but then the

Answer 1

Right, that's because new http client by default calls res.json() implicitly and you don't need to that manually yourself. Here is the quote from commit:

JSON is an assumed default and no longer needs to be explicitly parsed

See Difference between HTTP and HTTPClient in angular 4? for more details.