How to add HttpClient Interceptors conditionally in Angular

Question

Recently I have been using Interceptors with Angular HttpClient.

I add headers corresponding to some HTTP GET methods and for some I do not need those headers.

Answer 1

Note: I haven't tried this approach myself yet but have played with the idea because we are looking at a similar problem.

If we had very simple requirements, it would be trivial to add logic in a general purpose interceptor and just decide based on URL/Method which kind of interception to perform. However, our angular app needs to call a variety of 1st party micro-services and 3rd party APIs with different requirements for interceptors. This is effectively a superset of your requirements.

One idea to implement this is to extend HttpClient for each API/Service that we need to call and set up a custom injection token for the interceptor chain. You can see how angular registers the default HttpClient here:

 providers: [
    HttpClient,
    // HttpHandler is the backend + interceptors and is constructed
    // using the interceptingHandler factory function.
    {
      provide: HttpHandler,
      useFactory: interceptingHandler,
      deps: [HttpBackend, [new Optional(), new Inject(HTTP_INTERCEPTORS)]],
    },

The interceptingHandler function is even exported as ɵinterceptingHandler. I agree this looks a little weird, not sure why it has that export name.

Anyawy, to use a custom HttpClients you can probably:

export const MY_HTTP_INTERCEPTORS = new InjectionToken('MY_HTTP_INTERCEPTORS');

...
 providers: [
    MyHttpClient,
    {
      provide: MyHttpHandler,
      useFactory: interceptingHandler,
      deps: [HttpBackend, [new Optional(), new Inject(MY_HTTP_INTERCEPTORS)]],
    },

And make sure that MyHttpClient requires a MyHttpHandler in its constructor.