This change fixes an incompatibility between the old `@angular/http` package
and its successor (`@angular/common/http`) by re-introducing the types that were supported before.
It now allows to use number and boolean directly as HTTP params, instead of having to convert it to string first.
Before:
this.http.get('/api/config', { params: { page: `${page}` } });
After:
this.http.get('/api/config', { params: { page }});
`HttpParams` has also been updated to have most of its methods accept number or boolean values.
Fixes#23856
BREAKING CHANGE:
The methods of the `HttpParams` class now accept `string | number | boolean`
instead of `string` for the value of a parameter.
If you extended this class in your application,
you'll have to update the signatures of your methods to reflect these changes.
PR Close#40663
Adds an `appendAll()` method to `HttpParams` that can construct the HTTP
request/response body from an object of parameters and values.
This avoids calling `append()` multiple times when multiple parameters
need to be added.
Fixes#20798
PR Close#20930
Previous to this commit, HTTP params like `{ a: '1', b: [], c: '3' }` resulted in a request like `a=1&&c=3` (note the double &&).
The ideal fix would probably be to stringify these params to `a=1&b=&c=3` like we do for empty string values. But that might be breaking as some APIs may rely on the absence of the parameter.
This fixes the issue in a compatible way by just removing the extra and unnecessary `&`, resulting in `a=1&c=3`.
PR Close#34896
Previously, an instance of HttpParams would retain its list of mutations
after they have been materialized as a result of a read operation. Not
only does this unnecessarily hold onto memory, more importantly does it
introduce a bug where branching of off a materialized instance would
reconsider the set of mutations that had already been applied, resulting
in repeated application of mutations.
This commit fixes the bug by clearing the list of pending mutations
after they have been materialized, such that they will not be considered
once again for branched off instances.
Fixes#20430
PR Close#29045
