I am new to AngularJS, and for a start, I thought to develop a new application using only AngularJS.
I am trying to make an AJAX call to the server side, using $http
from my Angular App.
For sending the parameters, I tried the following:
$http({
method: "post",
url: URL,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: $.param({username: $scope.userName, password: $scope.password})
}).success(function(result){
console.log(result);
});
This is working, but it is using jQuery as well at $.param
. For removing the dependency on jQuery, I tried:
data: {username: $scope.userName, password: $scope.password}
but this seemed to fail. Then I tried params
:
params: {username: $scope.userName, password: $scope.password}
but this also seemed to fail. Then I tried JSON.stringify
:
data: JSON.stringify({username: $scope.userName, password: $scope.password})
I found these possible answers to my quest, but was unsuccessful. Am I doing something wrong? I am sure, AngularJS would provide this functionality, but how?
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All of these look like overkill (or don't work)... just do this:
$http.post(loginUrl, `username=${ encodeURIComponent(username) }` +
`&password=${ encodeURIComponent(password) }` +
'&grant_type=password'
).success(function (data) {
Here is the way it should be (and please no backend changes ... certainly not ... if your front stack does not support application/x-www-form-urlencoded
, then throw it away ... hopefully AngularJS does !
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: 'api_endpoint',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: 'username='+$scope.username+'&password='+$scope.password
}).then(function(response) {
// on success
}, function(response) {
// on error
});
Works like a charm with AngularJS 1.5
People, let give u some advice:
use promises .then(success, error)
when dealing with $http
, forget about .sucess
and .error
callbacks (as they are being deprecated)
From the angularjs site here "You can no longer use the JSON_CALLBACK string as a placeholder for specifying where the callback parameter value should go."
If your data model is more complex that just a username and a password, you can still do that (as suggested above)
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: 'api_endpoint',
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: json_formatted_data,
transformRequest: function(data, headers) {
return transform_json_to_urlcoded(data); // iterate over fields and chain key=value separated with &, using encodeURIComponent javascript function
}
}).then(function(response) {
// on succes
}, function(response) {
// on error
});
Document for the encodeURIComponent
can be found here
If it is a form try changing the header to:
headers[ "Content-type" ] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8";
and if it is not a form and a simple json then try this header:
headers[ "Content-type" ] = "application/json";
The problem is the JSON string format, You can use a simple URL string in data:
$http({
method: 'POST',
url: url,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
data: 'username='+$scope.userName+'&password='+$scope.password
}).success(function () {});
Though a late answer, I found angular UrlSearchParams worked very well for me, it takes care of the encoding of parameters as well.
let params = new URLSearchParams();
params.set("abc", "def");
let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'});
let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers, withCredentials: true });
this.http
.post(UrlUtil.getOptionSubmitUrl(parentSubcatId), params, options)
.catch();
With AngularJS 1.4 and up, two services can handle the process of url-encoding data for POST requests, eliminating the need to manipulate the data with transformRequest
or using external dependencies like jQuery:
$httpParamSerializerJQLike
- a serializer inspired by jQuery's .param()
(recommended)
$httpParamSerializer
- a serializer used by Angular itself for GET requests
Example usage
$http({
url: 'some/api/endpoint',
method: 'POST',
data: $httpParamSerializerJQLike($scope.appForm.data), // Make sure to inject the service you choose to the controller
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' // Note the appropriate header
}
}).then(function(response) { /* do something here */ });
$httpParamSerializerJQLike
and $httpParamSerializer
differentIn general, it seems $httpParamSerializer
uses less "traditional" url-encoding format than $httpParamSerializerJQLike
when it comes to complex data structures.
For example (ignoring percent encoding of brackets):
• Encoding an array
{sites:['google', 'Facebook']} // Object with array property
sites[]=google&sites[]=facebook // Result with $httpParamSerializerJQLike
sites=google&sites=facebook // Result with $httpParamSerializer
• Encoding an object
{address: {city: 'LA', country: 'USA'}} // Object with object property
address[city]=LA&address[country]=USA // Result with $httpParamSerializerJQLike
address={"city": "LA", country: "USA"} // Result with $httpParamSerializer
From the $http docs this should work..
$http.post(url, data,{headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}})
.success(function(response) {
// your code...
});
you need to post plain javascript object, nothing else
var request = $http({
method: "post",
url: "process.cfm",
transformRequest: transformRequestAsFormPost,
data: { id: 4, name: "Kim" }
});
request.success(
function( data ) {
$scope.localData = data;
}
);
if you have php as back-end then you will need to do some more modification.. checkout this link for fixing php server side
This worked for me. I use angular for front-end and laravel php for back-end. In my project, angular web sends json data to laravel back-end.
This is my angular controller.
var angularJsApp= angular.module('angularJsApp',[]);
angularJsApp.controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope ,$http) {
$scope.userName ="Victoria";
$scope.password ="password"
$http({
method :'POST',
url:'http://api.mywebsite.com.localhost/httpTest?callback=JSON_CALLBACK',
data: { username : $scope.userName , password: $scope.password},
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
}).success(function (data, status, headers, config) {
console.log('status',status);
console.log('data',status);
console.log('headers',status);
});
});
This is my php back-end laravel controller.
public function httpTest(){
if (Input::has('username')) {
$user =Input::all();
return Response::json($user)->setCallback(Input::get('callback'));
}
}
This is my laravel routing
Route::post('httpTest','HttpTestController@httpTest');
The result in browser is
status 200
data JSON_CALLBACK({"username":"Victoria","password":"password","callback":"JSON_CALLBACK"}); httpTesting.js:18 headers function (c){a||(a=sc(b));return c?a[K(c)]||null:a}
There is chrome extension called postman. You can use to test your back-end url whether it is working or not. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en
hopefully, my answer will help you.
$http({
method: "POST",
url: "/server.php",
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' },
data: "name='????'&age='28'",
}).success(function(data, status) {
console.log(data);
console.log(status);
});
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