CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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David Seek
David Seek

Reputation: 17132

How to perform GET request as blob in Ionic 4 / Capacitor

I'm trying to perform a GET request to download a PDF document to the phone. The responseType is blob as I need the result as a Blob file.

import {
  HttpClient
} from '@angular/common/http';

this.httpClient
   .get(specSheet.link, {
     responseType: 'blob'
   })
   .subscribe(result => {

     console.log('http client download result: ', result)

Everything works as expected on web and ran in Chrome. http client download result: Blob {size: 174016, type: "application/pdf"}

But on iOS or Android the result is empty http client download result: {}.

What am I missing? Any help is greatly appreciated.

PS: Here's a simple playground just downloading a test image: https://github.com/davidseek/ionic-playground

It works perfectly fine ran on web. But not at all on a physical device. Web result is a Blob, phone result is empty: {}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2399

Answers (1)

jcesarmobile
jcesarmobile

Reputation: 53341

That's just the console plugin not being able to display complex objects on the Xcode console.

If you debug the app using Safari remote inspector you'll see the actual blob. blob

Upvotes: 2

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