Get response header in then() function of a ngResource object's $promise property after resource resolved?

Question

I\'m willing to retrieve the response header of a resource request, cause I\'ve put pagination information and something else in it rather than the response body, to make the RE

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem. I used an interceptor in the resource definition to inject the http headers in the resource.

$resource('/api/resource/:id', {
    id: '@id'
  }, {
    index: {
      method: 'GET',
      isArray: true,
      interceptor: {
        response: function(response) {
          response.resource.$httpHeaders = response.headers;
          return response.resource;
        }
      }
    }});

Then, in the then callback, the http headers are accesible through $httpHeaders:

promise.then(function(resource) {
    resource.$httpHeaders('header-name');
});