[angular] Angular 4.3 - HttpClient set params

HttpParams is intended to be immutable. The set and append methods don't modify the existing instance. Instead they return new instances, with the changes applied.

let params = new HttpParams().set('aaa', 'A');    // now it has aaa
params = params.set('bbb', 'B');                  // now it has both

This approach works well with method chaining:

const params = new HttpParams()
  .set('one', '1')
  .set('two', '2');

...though that might be awkward if you need to wrap any of them in conditions.

Your loop works because you're grabbing a reference to the returned new instance. The code you posted that doesn't work, doesn't. It just calls set() but doesn't grab the result.

let httpParams = new HttpParams().set('aaa', '111'); // now it has aaa
httpParams.set('bbb', '222');                        // result has both but is discarded