How to send form data in a http post request of angular 2?

Question

I am trying to send form data of the updated user details to the back end which node server in angular 2,However I couldn't send the form data and the server responds with status of 500,In angularjs I have done something like this, service file

  update: {
    method: 'POST',
    params: {
      dest1: 'update'
    },
    transformRequest: angular.identity,
    'headers': {
      'Content-Type': undefined
    }
  }

In controller as

var fd = new FormData();
var user = {
  _id: StorageFactory.getUserDetail()._id,
  loc: locDetails
};
fd.append('user', angular.toJson(user));
UserService.update(fd).
$promise.then(
  function(value) {
    console.info(value);
    updateUserDetailsInStorage();
  },
  function(err) {
    console.error(err);
  }
);

I couldn't to figure how to do this in angular 2 as angular.toJson,angular.identity and transformrequest features are not available in angular 2, so far I have done the following in angular 2,

 let fd = new FormData();
 let user = {
   _id: this.appManager.getUserDetail()._id,
   loc: locDetails
 };
 fd.append('user', JSON.stringify(user));
 this.userService.update(fd).subscribe((value) => {
   console.log(value);
   this.updateUserDetailsInStorage();
 }, (err) => {
   console.error(err);
 });

http service file

update(body) {
  console.log('update', body);
  const headers = new Headers({
    'Content-Type': undefined
  });

  const options = new RequestOptions({
    headers: headers
  });
  return this.http.post(`${app.DOMAIN}` + 'user/update', body, options)
    .map((res: Response) => {
      res.json();
    }).do(data => {
      console.log('response', data);
    })
}

I have read many posts and tried few things but so far it was unsuccessful, could anyone suggest me how to do this?

Answer 1

You can add headers if your server controller requires it else you can simply post it like this

let body = new FormData();
body.append('email', 'emailId');
body.append('password', 'xyz');
this.http.post(url, body);

Answer 2

This is a functional solution for build a POST request in Angular2, you don't need an Authorization header.

var headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

let options = new RequestOptions({ headers: headers });

var body = "firstname=" + user.firstname + "&lastname=" + user.lastname + "&username=" + user.username + "&email=" + user.email + "&password=" + user.password;

return new Promise((resolve) => {
                this.http.post("http://XXXXXXXXXXX/users/create", body, options).subscribe((data) => {
                if (data.json()) {
                    resolve(data.json());
                } else {
                    console.log("Error");
                }
            }
        )
    });

Answer 3

Here is the method from my app which works fine.

 updateProfileInformation(user: User) {
    this.userSettings.firstName = user.firstName;
    this.userSettings.lastName = user.lastName;
    this.userSettings.dob = user.dob;

    var headers = new Headers();
    headers.append('Content-Type', this.constants.jsonContentType);

    var s = localStorage.getItem("accessToken");
    headers.append("Authorization", "Bearer " + s);
    var body = JSON.stringify(this.userSettings);

    return this.http.post(this.constants.userUrl + "UpdateUser", body, { headers: headers })
      .map((response: Response) => {
        var result = response.json();
        return result;
      })
      .catch(this.handleError)
  }

Answer 4

Here is the method I've used in angular 4 for uploading files.... for Ui

   <input type="file"id="file"(change)="handleFileInput($event)">

and .ts file I've added this ....

  handleFileInput(event) {
    let eventObj: MSInputMethodContext = <MSInputMethodContext> event;
    let target: HTMLInputElement = <HTMLInputElement> eventObj.target;
    let files: FileList = target.files;
    this.fileToUpload  = files[0];
    console.log(this.fileToUpload);
  }



 uploadFileToActivity() {
    console.log('Uploading file in process...!' + this.fileToUpload );
    this.fontService.upload(this.fileToUpload).subscribe(
      success => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(this.fileToUpload));
        console.log('Uploading file succefully...!');
        console.log('Uploading file succefully...!' + JSON.stringify(success));
      },
      err => console.log(err),
    );
  }

and In services

upload(fileToUpload: File) {
    const headers = new Headers({'enctype': 'multipart/form-data'});
    // headers.append('Accept', 'application/json');
    const options = new RequestOptions({headers: headers});
    const formData: FormData = new FormData();
    formData.append('file', fileToUpload, fileToUpload.name);
    console.log('before hist the service' + formData);
    return this.http
      .post(`${this.appSettings.baseUrl}/Containers/avatar/upload/`, formData , options).map(
        res => {
          const data = res.json();
          return data;
        }
      ).catch(this.handleError);
  }

This method used for single file uploading to the server directory.

Answer 5

FINAL answer sending like below working fine .

         const input = new FormData();
            input['payload'] = JSON.stringify(param);
             console.log(input);
                  alert(input);
                return this.httpClient.post(this.hostnameService.razor + 'pipelines/' + 
                    workflowId, input).subscribe(value => {
                 console.log('response for Manual Pipeline ' + value);
                 return value;
                   }, err => {
                     console.log(err);
                     });