Adding an interceptor for Restangular

[Mason Jones]

I came across a very nice approach to adding a spinner for http requests, which does it by adding an interceptor to the httpProvider service. There's a good example documented in this blog post:

http://codingsmackdown.tv/blog/2013/01/02/using-response-interceptors-to-show-and-hide-a-loading-widget/

However, I'm using Restangular instead of httpProvider, and I'm wondering if there's a similar way to do this for Restangular and perhaps generically for other services/providers? Or does this work only because httpProvider has the built-in responseInterceptors notion?

Thanks for any ideas!

-- Mason

[mlegenhausen]

Looking in the restangular code shows it uses ng-resource which uses $http, so the interceptor approuch should work too.

[Gonto]

Hey,

You have 2 options here.

1) Use $http interceptor as he suggested. You can do that using defaultHttpFields

https://github.com/mgonto/restangular#defaulthttpfields

2) You can use requestInterceptor and responseInterceptor implemented in Restangular

https://github.com/mgonto/restangular#responseinterceptor-or-responseextractor-its-an-alias

https://github.com/mgonto/restangular#requestinterceptor

Bests,

Gonto

[Mason Jones]

Great, thanks for the reply. I'll look into those both!