How to deal with http status codes other than 200 in Angular 2

Right now the way I do http requests (borrowed from this answer) is this:

POST(url, data) {
        var headers = new Headers(), authtoken = localStorage.getItem('authtoken');
        headers.append("Content-Type", 'application/json');

        if (authtoken) {
        headers.append("Authorization", 'Token ' + authtoken)
        }
        headers.append("Accept", 'application/json');

        var requestoptions = new RequestOptions({
            method: RequestMethod.Post,
            url: this.apiURL + url,
            headers: headers,
            body: JSON.stringify(data)
        })

        return this.http.request(new Request(requestoptions))
        .map((res: Response) => {
            if (res) {
                return { status: res.status, json: res.json() }
            }
        });
    }

This works fine, except for the fact that angular2 will fail if the status code returned is anything else than 200. For example, if a user wants to post something and the server returns 400, angular 2 will throw the exception:

uncaught exception: [object Object]

How can I avoid this? I'd like to handle these status codes in my app in order to enhance user experience (show errors, etc)

Yes you can handle with the catch operator like this and show alert as you want but firstly you have to import Rxjs for the same like this way

import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';

return this.http.request(new Request(this.requestoptions))
            .map((res: Response) => {
                if (res) {
                    if (res.status === 201) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                    else if (res.status === 200) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                }
            }).catch((error: any) => {
                if (error.status === 500) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 400) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 409) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
                else if (error.status === 406) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
            });
    }

also you can handel error (with err block) that is throw by catch block while .map function,

like this -

...
.subscribe(res=>{....}
           err => {//handel here});

Update

as required for any status without checking particluar one you can try this: -

return this.http.request(new Request(this.requestoptions))
            .map((res: Response) => {
                if (res) {
                    if (res.status === 201) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                    else if (res.status === 200) {
                        return [{ status: res.status, json: res }]
                    }
                }
            }).catch((error: any) => {
                if (error.status < 400 ||  error.status ===500) {
                    return Observable.throw(new Error(error.status));
                }
            })
            .subscribe(res => {...},
                       err => {console.log(err)} );