javascript - Angular 6: How to set response type as text while making http call

Question

I trying to make http request to the spring rest API.. API returns a string value ("success" or "fail")... but I dont know how to set the response type as string value while making call to the API..its throwing error as Backend returned code 200, body was: [object Object]

My angular code is like below,

order.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpClient, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
import { ProductSearch } from '../_models/product-search';
import { ProductView } from '../_models/product-view';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { ErrorHandlerService } from './error-handler.service';
import { Category } from '../_models/category';


@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class OrderService {

  constructor(private http: HttpClient, private errorHandlerService: ErrorHandlerService) { }

addToCart(productId: number, quantity: number): Observable<any> {
    const headers = new HttpHeaders().set('Content-Type', 'text/plain; charset=utf-8');
    console.log("--------order.service.ts----------addToCart()-------productId:"+productId+":------quantity:"+quantity);
     return this.http.post<any>('http://localhost:8080/order/addtocart', 
              { dealerId: 13, createdBy: "-1", productId: productId, quantity: quantity}, 
              {headers: headers})
              .pipe(catchError(this.errorHandlerService.handleError));
    }
}

error-handler.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpErrorResponse, HttpResponse } from '@angular/common/http';

import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';
import { catchError, retry } from 'rxjs/operators';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class ErrorHandlerService {

  constructor() { }

  public handleError(error: HttpErrorResponse) {
    if (error.error instanceof ErrorEvent) {
      // A client-side or network error occurred. Handle it accordingly.
      console.error('An error occurred:', error.error.message);
    } else {
      // The backend returned an unsuccessful response code.
      // The response body may contain clues as to what went wrong,
      console.error(
        `Backend returned code ${error.status}, ` +
        `body was: ${error.error}`);
    }
    // return an observable with a user-facing error message
    return throwError(
      'Something bad happened; please try again later.');
  };

}

Any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance..

Answer 1

To get rid of error:

Type '"text"' is not assignable to type '"json"'.

Read the Angular HTTP guide and use

responseType: 'text' as const

import { HttpClient, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
.....
 return this.http
        .post<string>(
            this.baseUrl + '/Tickets/getTicket',
            JSON.stringify(value),
        { headers, responseType: 'text' as const }
        )
        .map(res => {
            return res;
        })
        .catch(this.handleError);