I have a decoupled drupal project with an angular 5 front end that is utilizing a restful api to store data. Because this API needed a key that we didn’t want to expose we have created a restful endpoint in the Drupal code that acts as a sort of proxy. The front end hits Drupal, Drupal adds the key, hits the api, and then Drupal returns the api’s response to the front end.

When I hit the API directly, I get clean JSON:

{"total":610,"results": ..... 

But when I use the proxy, I get encoded json:

"{u0022totalu0022:610,u0022resultsu0022:[{u0022_idu0022:u ..... 

My Angular request:

get(): Observable<RecipePreview[]> {     let encryptedAuthorizationString = 'BLAHBLAHBLAH';     const headers = new HttpHeaders()         .set("Content-Type", "application/json")         .set("X-CSRF-Token", this._HttpServiceService.csrfToken)         .set("Authorization", "basic " + encryptedAuthorizationString)     ;      let u = this.filter.url();      return this._http.get(u,{headers})         .map(res => {                 return res;             }         )     ; } 

The Drupal RESTful endpoint code looks like this:

/**  * Responds to entity GET requests.  * @param $data  * @return DrupalrestResourceResponse  * @throws GuzzleHttpExceptionGuzzleException  */ public function get() {     $url="BLAHBLAHBLAH";      $client = Drupal::httpClient();     try {         $request = $client->request('GET', $url, [             'headers' => [                 'Content-Type' => 'application/json',                 'apikey' => "BLAH-BLAH-BLAH"             ],         ]);          $file_contents = $request->getBody()->getContents();     }     catch (RequestException $e) {         //An error happened.         $file_contents = "There was an error.";     }      Drupal::logger('Proxy API')->debug($file_contents);      return new ResourceResponse($file_contents); } 

I’m pretty sure that ResourceResponse is doing something to the json, and there has got to be a way to tell it to not do it anymore? But how? Thoughts?

I’m also using the same final end point in a drupal content migration from source and I believe this formatting is causing issues with that as well.

Thanks so much for helping me out with this!