Angularjs parsses non JSON POST response - angularjs

Question

I send a POST request to a server. As response the server send a http code and a plain text.
return Response.status(200).entity("Started").build();
AngularJS try to parse the response to json and I get a parsing error
Error: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON
data
This is my Angular code
$scope.submitForm = function() {
var url = 'http://localhost:8080/Server/server/start';
var request = $http({
method: 'POST',
url: url,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
transformRequest: function(obj) {
var str = [];
for(var p in obj)
str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
return str.join('&');
},
data: {name: $scope.name}}).then(function(html) {
//success callback code
//console.log(html)
}, function(html) {
//error callback code
//console.log(html)
});
}

Answer 1

You need to override transform response function
$scope.submitForm = function() {
var url = 'http://localhost:8080/Server/server/start';
var request = $http({
method: 'POST',
url: url,
headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
transformRequest: function(obj) {
var str = [];
for(var p in obj)
str.push(encodeURIComponent(p) + '=' + encodeURIComponent(obj[p]));
return str.join('&');
},
transformResponse: [
function (data) {
return data;
},
],
data: {name: $scope.name}}).then(function(html) {
//success callback code
//console.log(html)
}, function(html) {
//error callback code
//console.log(html)
});
}