Angular 6 accessing REST failing with Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Question

So I am trying to load the data from a REST source into my Angular 6 app using http: HttpClient from '@angular/common/http'. Calling the app in the browser using ng serve --open though doesn't do the job. I assume CORS to be the problem here. I guess I either have to set the server or the client headers with Access-Control-Allow-Origin or something, but I have already tried multiple ways without any success in making this simple REST call work. So what follows below is what I coded.

Calling the Angular app in the browser responds the following error:

Failed to load http://localhost:8080/mysite-backend/rest/report/single/d83badf3: 
Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: 
No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested 
resource. Origin 'http://localhost:4200' is therefore not allowed 
access.

Calling the same URL (http://localhost:8080/mysite-backend/rest/report/single/d83badf3) within the Chrome browser works perfectly though:

{"id":"d83badf3","language":"en","categoryId":"a5","title":"Simcity","created":1527723183880,"modified":1527723183880}

Within Angular 6 I use the following service class that I generated with ng generate service tour. Within that I created the method getTour(id: string) which does non more than call REST at the URL and return the retrieved JSON-string as a Tour object:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { HttpHeaders, HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { Observable, of } from 'rxjs';
import { Tour } from './tour';
import { catchError, tap } from 'rxjs/operators';

const httpOptions = {
  headers: new HttpHeaders({
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  })
};

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class TourService {

  // URL to the web api.
  private tourUrl = 'http://localhost:8080/mysite-backend/rest/report';

  constructor(
    private http: HttpClient
  ) { }

  /**
   * 
   * @param id: string GET tour report by id. Will 404 if id not found.
   */
  getTour(id: string): Observable<Tour> {
    httpOptions.headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', 'http://localhost:8080');
    httpOptions.headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE');
    httpOptions.headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'X-Requested-With,content-type');
    httpOptions.headers.append('Access-Control-Allow-Credentials', 'true');

    const url = `${this.tourUrl}/single/${id}`;
    console.log("XXX URL GET " + url)
    return this.http.get<Tour>(url, httpOptions).pipe(
      tap(_ => this.log(`fetched tour id=${id}`)),
      catchError(this.handleError<Tour>(`getHero id=${id}`))
    );
  }

  private handleError<T> (operation = 'operation', result?: T) {
    return (error, any): Observable<T> => {
      console.error(error);
      this.log(`${operation} failed: ${error.message}`);
      return of(result as T);
    };
  }

  private log(message: string) {
    console.log("Log message: " + message);
  }
}

This is the Tour object:

export class Tour {
    id: string;
    language: string;
    categoryId: string;
    created: Date;
    modified: Date;
    title: string;
    content: string;
}

I also added HttpClientModule from '@angular/common/http' to the imports array and the providers array within app.module.ts.

The RESTful WebService is built in Java. Here I have the getReport(@PathParam("reportId") String reportId) method, that gets an Report object and returns it within a Reponse:

import java.util.List;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

/**
 * Describes the RESTful access for reports.
 */
@Path("/report")
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class ReportResource {
    @Inject
    private Logger logger;

    @GET
    @Path("/single/{reportId}")
    public Response getReport(@PathParam("reportId") String reportId) {
        //return Mock.getReport(reportId);
        return Response.ok() // 200
                       .entity(Mock.getReport(reportId))
                       .header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
                       .header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, DELETE, PUT")
                       .allow("OPTIONS").build();
    }
...
}

What must I do to make a successful call from the Angular 6 client to the Java RESTful WebService?

Answer 1

The Issue is not related to angular itself, but the the web server you are using.

The angular http client request always have a preflight request with type options before hitting the actual request.

you might need to add OPTIONS request method to this line

   .header("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, DELETE, PUT")