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Disable JSON parsing in Axios

rated 0 times [ 139] [ 2] / answers: 1 / hits: 20198 / 8 Years ago, wed, december 7, 2016, 12:00:00

I have a react application in which I want the user to be able to upload code files that he can then view.

So naturally, .json files are also accepted. Now to get the file contents, I use axios to make a get request to the file on the server.

This works fine for everything except JSON files, which are automatically parsed and therefore not available as a String, but as a javascript object. Turning them into a string again with JSON.stringify removes all line breaks, so I can't do that.

Is there any way to stop Axios from automatically parsing JSON?

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answered 8 Years ago rocioblancac · Accepted Answer

LuleBes answer didnt work for me. What did work was:
transformResponse: (res) => { return res; },
As in:

    axios.get(url, {

        headers,

        transformResponse: (res) => {

            // Do your own parsing here if needed ie JSON.parse(res);

            return res;

        },

        responseType: 'json'

    }).then(response => {

        // response.data is an unparsed string

    });