Compressed JSON response does errors when used in Service

[Nikolay Krustev]

Hello, 

I am kind of new to AngularJS, so it can be my fault, but since there is so little info I need to ask for help.

In my application I load a JSON that is pretty huge (~ 10000 products). Load times are horrible without compression, as you can imagine and I decided to use gzip compression.

I compress the json response from my REST service (I use Slim). I load my data  async via an angular service. It works fine with the uncompressed response. This is my code:

 app.factory('CatalogService',function($http)

{

    var productsUrl = 'products/';

    var service =

    {

        async: function ()

        {

            var promise = $http({method:'GET', url: productsUrl, cache:true}).then(function (result) {

                var compressed = result.data;

                var decomp = JXG.decompress(compressed);

                return decomp;

            });

            return promise;

        }

    };

    return service;

});

The code itself works and debug inspection shows that the response is decompressed fine back to the original. However my templates does not load anything, and I get "undefined" errors on one of my custom filters that inspects a response element length.

Any help is appreciated.

[yahya Kacem]

I never used compression but, just a thought, maybe after the data is compressed is not a json object anymore check the type of the decompressed data it's probably string not Json.

Hope this help.

[Nikolay Krustev]

Thank you, that was the problem. I just eval'd it (I am certain about the safety of the JSON since I generate it, so eval is not a security hole) and it works like a charm.