AngularJS - Any way for http post to send request parameters instead of JSON

Question

I have some old code that is making an AJAX POST request through jQuery s post method and looks something like this     post   foo bar   requestData      function responseData                  do stuff with response         requestData is just a javascript object with some basic string properties   I m in the process of moving our stuff over to use Angular  and I want to replace this call with  http post  I came up with the following    http post   foo bar   requestData  success      function responseData              do stuff with response             When I did this  I got a 500 error response from the server  Using Firebug  I found that this sent the request body like this     param1   value1   param2   value2   param3   value3     The successful jQuery   post sends the body like this   param1 value1 amp param2 value2 amp param3 value3   The endpoint I am hitting is expecting request parameters and not JSON  So  my question is is there anyway to tell  http post to send up the javascript object as request parameters instead of JSON  Yes  I know I could construct the string myself from the object  but I want to know if Angular provides anything for this out of the box

User · Answer

I have problems as well with setting custom http authentication because $resource cache the request.

To make it work you have to overwrite the existing headers by doing this

var transformRequest = function(data, headersGetter){
  var headers = headersGetter();
  headers['Authorization'] = 'WSSE profile="UsernameToken"';
  headers['X-WSSE'] = 'UsernameToken ' + nonce
  headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json';
};

return $resource(
  url,
    {
    },
    {
      query: {
        method: 'POST',
        url: apiURL + '/profile',
        transformRequest: transformRequest,
        params: {userId: '@userId'}
      },
    }
);

I hope I was able to help someone. It took me 3 days to figure this one out.

User · Answer

Note that as of Angular 1 4  you can serialize the form data without using jQuery   In the app js   module run function  http   httpParamSerializerJQLike       http defaults transformRequest unshift  httpParamSerializerJQLike         Then in your controller    http       method   POST       url  myUrl       headers    Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded        data  myData

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From AngularJS documentation      params      Object       Map of strings or objects which   will be turned to  key1 value1 amp key2 value2 after the url  If the   value is not a string  it will be JSONified    So  provide string as parameters  If you don t want that  then use transformations  Again  from the documentation      To override these transformation locally  specify transform functions   as transformRequest and or transformResponse properties of the config   object  To globally override the default transforms  override the    httpProvider defaults transformRequest and    httpProvider defaults transformResponse properties of the    httpProvider    Refer to documentation for more details

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controller  pieChartController      scope     http     httpParamSerializerJQLike   function  scope   http   httpParamSerializerJQLike            var data                     TimeStamp    2016-04-25 12 50 00                      http               method   POST               url   serverutilizationreport               headers    Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded                data   httpParamSerializerJQLike data              success function

User · Answer

Syntax for AngularJS v1 4 8    v1 5 0           http post url  data  config               then                      function  response                               success callback                                            function  response                               failure callback                                        Eg       var url    http   example com        var data              param1    value1            param2    value2            param3    value3              var config             headers                 Content-Type    application json                         http post url  data  config               then                      function  response                               success callback                                            function  response                               failure callback

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Quick adjustment - for those of you having trouble with the global configuration of the transformRequest function  here s the snippet i m using to get rid of the Cannot read property  jquery  of undefined error    httpProvider defaults transformRequest   function data            return data    undefined     param data    null

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You can also solve this problem without changing code in server  changing header in  http post call and use   POST the regular way  Explained here  http   victorblog com 2012 12 20 make-angularjs-http-service-behave-like-jquery-ajax

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I found many times problematic behavior of this whole  I used it from express  without typings  and the bodyParser  with the dt body-parser typings    I didn t try to upload a file  instead simply to interpret a JSON given in a post string   The request body was simply an empty json        After a lot of investigation finally this worked for me   import   json   from  body-parser       app use json      lt -- should be defined before the first POST handler    It may be also important to give the application json content type in the request string from the client side

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I think the params config parameter won t work here since it adds the string to the url instead of the body but to add to what Infeligo suggested here is an example of the global override of a default transform  using jQuery param as an example to convert the data to param string    Set up global transformRequest function   var app   angular module  myApp     app config function   httpProvider         httpProvider defaults transformRequest   function data           if  data     undefined                return data                    return   param data               That way all calls to  http post will automatically transform the body to the same param format used by the jQuery   post call   Note you may also want to set the Content-Type header per call or globally like this    httpProvider defaults headers post  Content-Type      application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset UTF-8     Sample non-global transformRequest per call       var transform   function data           return   param data               http post   foo bar   requestData            headers     Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset UTF-8            transformRequest  transform        success function responseData              do stuff with response

User · Answer

Use jQuery s   param function to serialize the JSON data in requestData   In short  using similar code as yours    http post   foo bar     param requestData         headers                 Content-Type    application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset UTF-8            success      function responseData              do stuff with response             For using this  you have to include jQuery in your page along with AngularJS

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This might be a bit of a hack  but I avoided the issue and converted the json into PHP s POST array on the server side     POST   json decode file get contents  php   input    true

User · Answer

Modify the default headers    http defaults headers post  Content-Type      application x-www-form-urlencoded charset utf-8     Then use JQuery s   param method   var payload     param  key  value     http post targetURL  payload

User · Answer

If using Angular    1 4  here s the cleanest solution I ve found that doesn t rely on anything custom or external   angular module  yourModule      config function   httpProvider   httpParamSerializerJQLikeProvider        httpProvider defaults transformRequest unshift  httpParamSerializerJQLikeProvider  get          httpProvider defaults headers post  Content-Type      application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset utf-8         And then you can do this anywhere in your app    http     method   POST     url    requesturl     data        param1   value1       param2   value2            And it will correctly serialize the data as param1 value1 amp param2 value2 and send it to  requesturl with the application x-www-form-urlencoded  charset utf-8 Content-Type header as it s normally expected with POST requests on endpoints

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