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GermaineJason
GermaineJason

Reputation: 589

Angular can't parse Spring response

I am having some issues trying to receive a response message from a Spring RESTful web service to an AngularJS client.

I am using ResponseEntity<String> to return a response to the client. This works when only returning a status code but AngularJS fails with Unexpected token R when I send a response message in the body.

What am I doing wrong?

return new ResponseEntity<String>(HttpStatus.OK);

But this does not work:

return new ResponseEntity<String>("Report was updated successfully", HttpStatus.OK);

AngularJs code:

$http.get(url, header)
    .success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
        // some logic
    }).error(function(resp, status) {
        // some logic
    });

Response:

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 4014

Answers (1)

Ken Pickering
Ken Pickering

Reputation: 46

Is Angular expecting JSON or HTML/text back?

I've experienced issues in the past returning text/javascript or application/json instead of text/html. It looks like Angular is expecting JSON or JSONP in that instance, hence the Unexpected Token R (which is the first letter of your response string).

I could give a more precise answer, but I'd need to also know if you're using JSONP vs JSON, etc.

Upvotes: 1

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