feat($http): provide a config object as an argument to header functions

Author: pkozlowski-opensource

src/ng/http.js

@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
      *    - **data** – `{string|Object}` – Data to be sent as the request message data.
      *    - **headers** – `{Object}` – Map of strings or functions which return strings representing
      *      HTTP headers to send to the server. If the return value of a function is null, the
-     *      header will not be sent.
+     *      header will not be sent. Functions accept a config object as an argument.
      *    - **xsrfHeaderName** – `{string}` – Name of HTTP header to populate with the XSRF token.
      *    - **xsrfCookieName** – `{string}` – Name of cookie containing the XSRF token.
      *    - **transformRequest** –
@@ -834,12 +834,12 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
           : $q.reject(resp);
       }
 
-      function executeHeaderFns(headers) {
+      function executeHeaderFns(headers, config) {
         var headerContent, processedHeaders = {};
 
         forEach(headers, function(headerFn, header) {
           if (isFunction(headerFn)) {
-            headerContent = headerFn();
+            headerContent = headerFn(config);
             if (headerContent != null) {
               processedHeaders[header] = headerContent;
             }
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
         }
 
         // execute if header value is a function for merged headers
-        return executeHeaderFns(reqHeaders);
+        return executeHeaderFns(reqHeaders, shallowCopy(config));
       }
     }
 

test/ng/httpSpec.js

@@ -781,6 +781,26 @@ describe('$http', function() {
         $httpBackend.flush();
       });
 
+      it('should expose a copy of a config object to header functions', function () {
+        var config = {
+          foo: 'Rewritten',
+          headers: {'Accept': function(config) {
+            config.bar = 'baz';
+            return config.foo;
+          }}
+        };
+
+        function checkHeaders(headers) {
+          return headers['Accept'] == 'Rewritten';
+        }
+
+        $httpBackend.expect('GET', '/url', undefined, checkHeaders).respond('');
+        $http.get('/url', config);
+        $httpBackend.flush();
+
+        expect(config.bar).toBeUndefined();
+      });
+
       it('should check the cache before checking the XSRF cookie', inject(function($browser, $cacheFactory) {
         var testCache = $cacheFactory('testCache'),
             executionOrder = [];