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
Previously, HttpClient used the overly clever test "body || null"
to determine when a body parameter was provided. This breaks when
the valid bodies '0' or 'false' are provided.
This change tests directly against 'undefined' to detect the presence
of the body parameter, and thus correctly allows falsy values through.
Fixes#19825.
Fixes#19195.
PR Close#19958
Today, constructing a new GET request with headers looks like:
const headers = new HttpHeaders({
'My-Header': 'header value',
});
http.get('/url', {headers}).subscribe(...);
This indirection is unnecessary. It'd be more ergonomic to write:
http.get('/url', {headers: {'My-Header': 'header value'}}).subscribe(...);
This commit allows that new syntax, both for HttpHeaders and HttpParams.
In the HttpParams case it also allows construction of HttpParams with a map.
PR Close#18490
HttpClient is an evolution of the existing Angular HTTP API, which exists
alongside of it in a separate package, @angular/common/http. This structure
ensures that existing codebases can slowly migrate to the new API.
The new API improves significantly on the ergonomics and features of the legacy
API. A partial list of new features includes:
* Typed, synchronous response body access, including support for JSON body types
* JSON is an assumed default and no longer needs to be explicitly parsed
* Interceptors allow middleware logic to be inserted into the pipeline
* Immutable request/response objects
* Progress events for both request upload and response download
* Post-request verification & flush based testing framework
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Quentin Focheux
Ajit Singh
Joey Perrott
Kara Erickson
George Kalpakas
Igor Minar
Misko Hevery
Alex Rickabaugh
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