HTTP

@capacitor-community/http

Capacitor community plugin for native HTTP requests, file download/uploads, and cookie management.

Youreka Forked Changes

Response Type

Change

1. We follow the response type over the content type header that is returned from the http response if the content type is a JSON. If the response type is 'text' while the content type is 'json' we will return a string of a JSON. Note: iOS will return a string where the double quotes have a backslash in front of them like so:

     "
       \"data\": \"some random data\"
     "
   

   while Android will just return the JSON without backslashes in from of the double quotes.
2. Upload the dist file

Reason

1. Some of Youreka's Apex endpoints return the content type header as JSON when the actual data returned is of type string.
2. The dist file is needed when using npm to install a plugin that is hoted on github and not npm

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Social
Max Lynch	mlynch	@maxlynch
Thomas Vidas	thomasvidas	@thomasvidas

Installation

npm install @capacitor-community/http
npx cap sync

Capacitor 2.x

For Capacitor 2.x projects, you will need to install a version less than 1.0.0. You can do that by specifying the version in your package.json or installing like this. The latest 2.x compatible version is 0.3.1.

npm install @capacitor-community/[email protected]

Configuration

In most cases no configuration is required for this plugin. If the Android application connects with use the self-signed certificates or without encryption, see Network security configuration article.

Usage

To use the plugin while fully supporting the web version, import and use it like this:

import { Http } from '@capacitor-community/http';

// Example of a GET request
const doGet = () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'https://example.com/my/api',
    headers: { 'X-Fake-Header': 'Max was here' },
    params: { size: 'XL' },
  };

  const response: HttpResponse = await Http.get(options);

  // or...
  // const response = await Http.request({ ...options, method: 'GET' })
};

// Example of a POST request. Note: data
// can be passed as a raw JS Object (must be JSON serializable)
const doPost = () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'https://example.com/my/api',
    headers: { 'X-Fake-Header': 'Thomas was here' },
    data: { foo: 'bar', cool: true },
  };

  const response: HttpResponse = await Http.post(options);

  // or...
  // const response = await Http.request({ ...options, method: 'POST' })
};

const setCookie = async () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'http://example.com',
    key: 'language',
    value: 'en',
  };

  await Http.setCookie(options);
};

const deleteCookie = async () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'http://example.com',
    key: 'language',
  };

  await Http.deleteCookie(options);
};

const clearCookies = async () => {
  await Http.clearCookies({ url: 'http://example.com' });
};

const getCookies = async () => {
  const cookies: HttpCookie[] = await Http.getCookies({
    url: 'http://example.com',
  });
};

const downloadFile = async () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'https://example.com/path/to/download.pdf',
    filePath: 'document.pdf',
    fileDirectory: Directory.Downloads,
    // Optional
    method: 'GET',
  };

  // Writes to local filesystem
  const response: HttpDownloadFileResult = await Http.downloadFile(options);

  // Then read the file
  if (response.path) {
    const read = await Filesystem.readFile({
      path: 'download.pdf',
      directory: Directory.Downloads,
    });
  }
};

const uploadFile = async () => {
  const options = {
    url: 'https://example.com/path/to/upload.pdf',
    name: 'myFile',
    filePath: 'document.pdf',
    fileDirectory: FilesystemDirectory.Downloads,
  };

  const response: HttpUploadFileResult = await Http.uploadFile();
};

API Reference

You can view the API Reference generated by TypeDoc here: https://capacitor-community.github.io/http/docs/classes/web.httpweb.html

Third Party Cookies on iOS

As of iOS 14, you cannot use 3rd party cookies by default. There is an open issue on the Capacitor Core repo on properly patching in cookies on iOS. For now, you must specify a domain of for the cookie you are saving to properly save and send them via requests. You can also add the following lines to your Info.plist file to get better support for cookies on iOS. You can add up to 10 domains.

<key>WKAppBoundDomains</key>
<array>
    <string>www.mydomain.com</string>
    <string>api.mydomain.com</string>
    <string>www.myothercooldomain.com</string>
</array>

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Daniel Sogl 📖	Priyank Patel 💻	Max Lynch 💻	Falk Schieber 👀	Andy Sousa 💻	Thomas Vidas 💻 🚧	Emily Curry 💻
graefenhain 💻	Lee Houghton 🐛	Felix Schwarzmeier 💻	Kamil Jakubus 💻	Joe Flateau 🐛	Frank608 🐛	Joel Nieto 🐛
ultimate-tester 💻	Adrian Sanchez 🐛	milanc 💻	herecoulbeyourname 💻	Landschaft 💻	stonewoodman 🐛	Héctor Cruz 🐛
Patrick Bußmann 💻	Jesper Bjerke 🐛

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!