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I am new to AngularJS, and building an app that will interact with a server. The server has a REST API, but responds to some methods with plain text, and to others with JSON. I have implemented a simple http request method using AngularJS' $resource service.

However, when the server response is plain text, the response in AngularJS is an object with one entry for each character in the response word. How can I get around this (in a good way)? Ideally, I would like to be able to tell my service when to expect plain text and when to expect JSON, and get a nicely formatted response in both cases.

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$resource is a convenience wrapper for working with Restful objects. It'll automatically try to parse as JSON and populate the object based on the $resource definition.

You are much better off using the $http service for non restful resources.

This is a lower level API that doesn't have such overbearing object mapping.

e.g.

$http({method: "GET", url: "/myTextDocURL"}
  .success(function(data){ // data should be text string here }
);
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