Configure xhr.responseType on request for binary data

I have an API returning binary data. I’m trying to figure out how to set the xhr.responseType='arraybuffer' so I don’t get content encoding errors.

/* swagger api... */
myApi.download({filePath: '/path/to/file.txt.gz'}, function(resp) {
  /* here resp.data is the binary data, but full of Unicode error/replacement characters */
});

/* alternatively... */
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'http://api.example.com/download//path/to/file.txt.gz');
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
xhr.onload = function(resp) {
  if (resp.target.readyState === 4) {
    var arraybuffer = xhr.response;
    // do stuff with arraybuffer...
  }
};
xhr.send();

I’ve tried passing in {responseType: 'arraybuffer'} with the options but without luck. Digging in the source I’m not seeing anything on how to get access to the underlying XHR object.

Thanks in advance for looking!

Regards, Matt.

[fehguy]

i propose we keep this in the swagger-ui issue #374

[fehguy]

added long ago