Lets say i have several $resources and some $http around my angular application:
myApp.factory('Note', function($resource) {
return $resource('http://', {id: '@id'},
{ 'index': { method: 'GET', isArray: true },
'update': { method: 'PUT'},
});
});
with controller
myApp.controller('NotesController',function NotesController($scope, Note, AuthenticationService) {
$scope.notes = Note.index({}, function(data){
console.log('success, got data: ', data);
$scope.response = "yoy!"
}, function(err){
console.log('error, got data: ', err);
$scope.response = "yay!"
});
});
and some request are made by $http directly like authentication
var request = $http.post('http://', {email: email, password: password});
Where and How i can tell angular to deflate and encode/decode JSONs to base64 before the actual request is made / response is receive?
I quess i will wrap external libraries for deflate and encode/decode into factory. And then this factory will be injected somehere?
Like $httpBackend ?
You should have a look at the request / response transformers for the $http
service: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$http
Request / response transformers are simply functions that can be invoked before content is sent / handed back to the caller. You can specify transforming functions globally (for all requests / responses) as well as per-request basis:
To override these transformation locally, specify transform functions
as transformRequest and/or transformResponse properties of the config
object. To globally override the default transforms, override the
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest and
$httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse properties of the
$httpProvider.
To define global request / response transformers one would write the code along those lines (it is more like pseudo-code, won't work in all browsers, see notes about Base64 below):
angular.module('sample', [], function($httpProvider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = function(data, headersGetter) {
return btoa(JSON.stringify(data));
};
$httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse = function(data, headersGetter) {
return JSON.parse(atob(data));
};
})
Of course your transforming code could be more sophisticated and depend on request / response headers but the general idea is here. The jsFiddle with the code (check the console to see that a request gets transformed, you need to use Mozilla or a WebKit browser): http://jsfiddle.net/Ydt5j/
For the actual conversion from / to Base64 check this question: How can you encode a string to Base64 in JavaScript?
angular.module('services.base64',[]);
angular.module('services.base64').provider('base64', function () {
this.encode = function(str) {
return base64_encode(str);
}
this.decode = function(str) {
return base64_decode(str);
}
this.$get = function() {
return {};
}
});
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',['services.base64'])
myApp.config(['base64Provider', function (base64Provider) {
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = function(request){return base64Provider.encode(request)};
$httpProvider.defaults.transformResponse = function(response){return base64Provider.decode(response)};
}]);
this is how i do in filter.
item.htmlBody contains base64 encoded text with html tag
// in template
<div ng-bind-html="item.htmlBody | decodeBase64">{{item.htmlBody}}</div>
//inside controller.js
.filter('decodeBase64', function(){
return function(text){
return atob(text);
}
})
well, i know this doesnt exactly answer the question, but with some minor tweak, you can get what you want (targetting future person with the same problem)