Suppose I have the following test code in AngularJS:

var someURL;
var dummyJSON;
$httpBackend.whenGET(someURL).respond(dummyJSON);

Is there a way of making this the response for a set of URLs rather than just one? For example, I'd like it to respond with the same dummy JSON for ANY url that starts with /api/, but not ones that start with /app/. Like a wildcard URL ("/app/*") ?

Thanks for the help

Suppose I have the following test code in AngularJS:

var someURL;
var dummyJSON;
$httpBackend.whenGET(someURL).respond(dummyJSON);

Is there a way of making this the response for a set of URLs rather than just one? For example, I'd like it to respond with the same dummy JSON for ANY url that starts with /api/, but not ones that start with /app/. Like a wildcard URL ("/app/*") ?

Thanks for the help

• javascript
• angularjs

• 2 You can use regular expression in url. Check here – Jashwant Commented Dec 30, 2013 at 21:26
• Thanks for the link. Any help in constructing this regexp? I'm having difficulty getting it to work. – r.bilgil Commented Dec 30, 2013 at 21:59

2 Answers 2

I've had luck with expressions like whenGET(/^\/api\//) – which means starts with /api/. In the regex, ^ will match the start of the string and \/ will match a literal / in the URL.

If that doesn't match your requests, try whenGET(/\/api\//) which should match absolute URLs as well as relative URLs.

You can also use a function if you don't want to deal with regex. Something like:

$httpBackend.when("GET", function(url) {return url.indexOf("/api/") === 0;}