By default the new Angular Http client (introduced in v4.3.1
) uses JSON as the data format for communicating with the backend API. However, there might be situations where you may want to use some other format, like text/plain
for fetching a CSV file. Using the responseType
property this can be achieved quite easily.
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable'; import { HttpClient, HttpErrorResponse, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http'; @Injectable() export class PeopleService { constructor(private http: HttpClient) {} fetchPeople(): Observable<Object> { return this.http .get('data/people.txt', { responseType: 'text'}); } }