Passing arguments to PDFViewerApplication.open

[oniekrenz]

Hi,

I needed to load a PDF from a REST API and this failed because the credentials were not sent in the request. I found out that this is possible by passing an argument object with '{ "withCredentials": true }' as the second parameter to PDFViewerApplication.open().
Unfortunately angular-pdfjs-viewer does not support this, so I forked your project and made a quick fix. Maybe you could evaluate if this is a valid approach and can be merged or if you prefer another solution.

[moesjarraf]

This is precisely the use case when you should use the data attribute, see readme . It should be used whenever the pdf is not publicly available and you need to pass config/headers in the request to get the pdf.

I'd recommend using the $http service to get your pdf, see usage on how to pass in withCredentials to the config.

Example below:

<pdfjs-viewer data="$ctrl.data"></pdfjs-viewer>

$scope.data = null; // this is loaded async

$http.get("http://example.com/my-secure.pdf", {
    responseType: 'arraybuffer',
    withCredentials: true,
    headers: {}
}).then(function (response) {
    $scope.data = new Uint8Array(response.data);
});

[oniekrenz]

I did consider using the data attribute but as far as I could see there are other arguments you could pass as well. It's not limited to that specific use-case only.