How To Call XML Service With AngularJS

Question

I know that AngularJS prefers JSON, but I can't get my Web API to work with JSON. I've tried for 3 days and I'm not going to try anymore. I can get it to return XML. Can I retrieve the XML data with AngularJS? I have written the $http call below and it always fails with no status text. I've tried asking for XML type and I've tried the default call. You can see that all 3 of these URLs return XML data in the browser:

http://stevegaines.info/api/Exams?id=3&extra=0
http://stevegaines.info/api/Exams/4
http://stevegaines.info/api/values


$http.get(url)
    .then(function (dataResponse)
    {
        $scope.Exams = dataResponse.data;
    }, function (error)
    {
        alert("error.statusText = " + error.statusText);
    });

k10der · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-07 03:35:09Z

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I've just tried to call your api with $http service and it works ok. I think you should start investigating this problem with looking at network tab in chrome developer tools when making such a request.

answered May 7, 2016 at 3:35

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Steve Gaines Over a year ago

Thanks for giving it a try. I'm surprised that it worked for you. I'm going to try checking the network tab again, but every time I dug into the response it just said "An error has occurred". Maybe I'll try creating a new project that has nothing but that one line of code to be sure something else in my code is not causing the problem.

k10der Over a year ago

I tried calling this URL again and discovered, that you need add www. to your address, because e.g. get request on http://stevegaines.info/api/Exams?id=3&extra=0 returns 301 response moved permanently, so no data can be parsed. I think it helps.

Steve Gaines Over a year ago

Brilliant. Adding "www." worked. Such a little change. That's one of those things where I go "Doh!". Or "Why didn't I think of that?" Thanks a lot.

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