- update readme

- implement response type support for browser platform

README.md

@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ The options object contains following keys:
 * `data`: payload to be send to the server (only applicable on `post`, `put` or `patch` methods)
 * `params`: query params to be appended to the URL (only applicable on `get`, `head`, `delete`, `upload` or `download` methods)
 * `serializer`: data serializer to be used (only applicable on `post`, `put` or `patch` methods), defaults to global serializer value, see [setDataSerializer](#setDataSerializer) for supported values
+* `responseType`: expected response type, defaults to `text`, needs to be one of the following values:
+  * `text` use this for all kind of text responses (e.g. JSON, XML, HTML, plain text, etc.)
+  * `arraybuffer` use this one for binary responses
 * `timeout`: timeout value for the request in seconds, defaults to global timeout value
 * `followRedirect`: enable or disable automatically following redirects
 * `headers`: headers object (key value pair), will be merged with global values

src/browser/cordova-http-plugin.js

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ function setHeaders(xhr, headers) {
 }
 
 function sendRequest(method, withData, opts, success, failure) {
-  var data, serializer, headers, timeout, followRedirect;
+  var data, serializer, headers, timeout, followRedirect, responseType;
   var url = opts[0];
 
   if (withData) {
@@ -110,10 +110,13 @@ function sendRequest(method, withData, opts, success, failure) {
     headers = opts[3];
     timeout = opts[4];
     followRedirect = opts[5];
+    responseType = opts[6];
   } else {
     headers = opts[1];
     timeout = opts[2];
     followRedirect = opts[3];
+    responseType = opts[4];
+
   }
 
   var processedData = null;
@@ -152,6 +155,7 @@ function sendRequest(method, withData, opts, success, failure) {
   }
 
   xhr.timeout = timeout * 1000;
+  xhr.responseType = responseType;
   setHeaders(xhr, headers);
 
   xhr.onerror = xhr.ontimeout = function () {