Angular4 http get parse error

Question

Request mydomain/request returns json string like "accepted" or "declined"

I would use request in angular to get this string :

  getStatus(jobOfferId): Promise<string> {
    const url = "someurl";

    return this.httpClientService.get(url)
      .toPromise()
      .then(response => response as string);
  }

This would work in angular 2, but I've just upgraded to angular 4 and this request returns an error instead

"Http failure during parsing for https://mydomain/request"

Answer 1

JSON is the default expected response type. You can try forcing using "text" instead and print the result just to understand what is happening:

httpClient.get('http://some.com/endpoint/', { responseType: 'text' }).subscribe(result => {
    console.log(result);
});