Converting XML API response to JSON in Angular

Question

I am receiving data from an API that uses XML instead of JSON. So far I have the following service for connecting to the API:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http } from '@angular/http';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';

@Injectable()
export class MyService {
  private searchURL: string = "http://api.testsite.xml";
  constructor(private _http: Http) { }

  getData(){
    return this._http.get(this.searchURL).map(res => res)
  }
}

I subscribe to it in my component like so:

ngOnInit() {
    this._service.getData().subscribe(item=> console.log((<any>item)._body));
  }

This returns a Response object inside which there's a _body property where the whole XML is stored as a string. How do I go about extracting this XML and convert it to JSON? Thanks.

I agree with @Ali, you'll need a 3rd party tool to parse that. — chrispy
– chrispy, Commented Nov 8, 2017 at 15:22

Mayank Srivastava · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-08 16:03:50Z

1

You can use - xml2json.js library. Found this at - Here

var x2js = new X2JS();
var jsonString = x2js.xml_str2json(yourXml);

answered Nov 8, 2017 at 16:03

Mayank Srivastava

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