Angular2 – Http POST request parameters

Update for Angualar 4.3+

Now we can use HttpClient instead of Http

Guide is here

Sample code

const myheader = new HttpHeaders().set('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
let body = new HttpParams();
body = body.set('username', USERNAME);
body = body.set('password', PASSWORD);
http
  .post('/api', body, {
    headers: myheader),
  })
  .subscribe();

Deprecated

Or you can do like this:

let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
let body = urlSearchParams.toString()

Update Oct/2017

From angular4+, we don’t need headers, or .toString() stuffs. Instead, you can do like below example

import { URLSearchParams } from '@angular/http';

POST/PUT method

let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
this.http.post('/api', urlSearchParams).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
    )

GET/DELETE method

    let urlSearchParams = new URLSearchParams();
    urlSearchParams.append('username', username);
    urlSearchParams.append('password', password);
    this.http.get('/api', { search: urlSearchParams }).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
    )

For JSON application/json Content-Type

this.http.post('/api',
      JSON.stringify({
        username: username,
        password: password,
      })).subscribe(
      data => {
        alert('ok');
      },
      error => {
        console.log(JSON.stringify(error.json()));
      }
      )

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