[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-4044) Use angular $http service instead of node request module

[Denis Golovin (JIRA)]

Denis Golovin created JBDS-4044:
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             Summary: Use angular $http service instead of node request module
                 Key: JBDS-4044
                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4044
             Project: Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (devstudio)
          Issue Type: Enhancement
          Components: platform-installer
    Affects Versions: 10.2.0.AM1
            Reporter: Denis Golovin
            Assignee: Denis Golovin


Since April $http service seems to support progress reporting for http requests:
1. See httpspec.js in this [commit|https://github.com/angular/angular.js/commit/01b18450882da9bb9c903d43c0daddbc03c2c35d];
2. XMLHTTPRequest documentation [here|https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest].

Questions:
1. Does it support redirects?
2. How authentication is supported?

Benefits:
1. Native browser service, so probably should be working faster;
2. Proxy settings picked up from system settings, so there is no need to set up environment variables before running the installer.

Drawbacks:
1. Proxy errors are not detectable (?) It just printed out to console without providing info trough returning error parameter for callback;
2. No third party multi-threaded downloaders that would support restarting download from the position where it failed.



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