I have an angular project that I'm breaking out into a better file structure but I'm getting Argument 'fn' is not a function, got undefined for an error when creating a new service. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
app.js
angular.module('app', [
'app.controllers'
]);
angular.module('app.controllers', ['leaflet-directive', 'app.services']);
angular.module('app.services', []);
main.controller.js
angular.module('app.controllers')
.controller('MainCtrl', MainCtrl);
function MainCtrl($scope, $window, leafletData, DataService) {
var main = this;
main.items = DataService.GetItems();
//Other controller stuff
};
data.service.js
angular.module("app.services")
.factory('DataService', DataService);
var DataService = function(){
return data = {
getItems: function(){
return [//data here];
}
};
}
Your declaration of DataService is the problem. You're declaring it after you're using it. You should change your declaration of DataService to function DataService() instead of setting it to a var to take advantage of function hoisting
I'm getting started with the meanjs stack, and have reached a bit of a headscratcher that I don't have the understanding to google properly.
I have the following files:
**
(function () {
'use strict';
angular
.module('students')
.controller('StudentsListController', StudentsListController);
StudentsListController.$inject = ['StudentsService'];
function StudentsListController(StudentsService) {
var vm = this;
vm.students = StudentsService.query();
}
}());
Using this service, I am able to get an array of Student objects in the list-students controller, next:
list-students.client.controller.js
(function () {
'use strict';
angular
.module('students')
.factory('StudentsService', StudentsService);
StudentsService.$inject = ['$resource'];
function StudentsService($resource) {
return $resource('api/students/:studentId', {
studentId: '#_id'
}, {
update: {
method: 'PUT'
}
});
}
}());
This works as intended.
What I don't understand, is why when I try to use the same service in another controller, it seems to fail to inject, leaving me with an undefined StudentsServices variable.
What gives?
students.client.controller.js
(function () {
'use strict';
// Students controller
angular
.module('students')
.controller('StudentsController', StudentsController);
StudentsController.$inject = ['$scope', '$state', 'Authentication', 'StudentsService'];
function StudentsController ($scope, $state, Authentication, student, StudentsService) {
var vm = this;
vm.authentication = Authentication;
vm.student = student;
vm.students = StudentsService.query();
...
}());
Your inject is wrong.
'$scope', '$state', 'Authentication', 'StudentsService'
But you're telling the controller to expect
$scope, $state, Authentication, student, StudentsService
I figured it out, per
AngularJS: Factory is always undefined when injected in controller
It was that my injections need to be in the same order as the params passed into the controller function.
Aha!
I've ran into problem with ng-controller and 'resolve' functionality:
I have a controller that requires some dependency to be resolved before running, it works fine when I define it via ng-route:
Controller code looks like this:
angular.module('myApp')
.controller('MyController', ['$scope', 'data', function ($scope, data) {
$scope.data = data;
}
]
);
Routing:
...
.when('/someUrl', {
templateUrl : 'some.html',
controller : 'MyController',
resolve : {
data: ['Service', function (Service) {
return Service.getData();
}]
}
})
...
when I go to /someUrl, everything works.
But I need to use this controller in other way(I need both ways in different places):
<div ng-controller="MyController">*some html here*</div>
And, of course, it fails, because 'data' dependency wasn't resolved. Is there any way to inject dependency into controller when I use 'ng-controller' or I should give up and load data inside controller?
In the below, for the route resolve, we're resolving the promise and wrapping the return data in an object with a property. We then duplicate this structure in the wrapper service ('dataService') that we use for the ng-controller form.
The wrapper service also resolves the promise but does so internally, and updates a property on the object we've already returned to be consumed by the controller.
In the controller, you could probably put a watcher on this property if you wanted to delay some additional behaviours until after everything was resolved and the data was available.
Alternatively, I've demonstrated using a controller that 'wraps' another controller; once the promise from Service is resolved, it then passes its own $scope on to the wrapped controller as well as the now-resolved data from Service.
Note that I've used $timeout to provide a 1000ms delay on the promise return, to try and make it a little more clear what's happening and when.
angular.module('myApp', ['ngRoute'])
.config(function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
template: '<h1>{{title}}</h1><p>{{blurb}}</p><div ng-controller="ResolveController">Using ng-controller: <strong>{{data.data}}</strong></div>',
controller: 'HomeController'
})
.when('/byResolve', {
template: '<h1>{{title}}</h1><p>{{blurb}}</p><p>Resolved: <strong>{{data.data}}</strong></p>',
controller: "ResolveController",
resolve: {
dataService: ['Service',
function(Service) {
// Here getData() returns a promise, so we can use .then.
// I'm wrapping the result in an object with property 'data', so we're returning an object
// which can be referenced, rather than a string which would only be by value.
// This mirrors what we return from dataService (which wraps Service), making it interchangeable.
return Service.getData().then(function(result) {
return {
data: result
};
});
}
]
}
})
.when('/byWrapperController', {
template: '<h1>Wrapped: {{title}}</h1><p>{{blurb}}</p><div ng-controller="WrapperController">Resolving and passing to a wrapper controller: <strong>{{data.data ? data.data : "Loading..."}}</strong></div>',
controller: 'WrapperController'
});
})
.controller('HomeController', function($scope) {
$scope.title = "ng-controller";
$scope.blurb = "Click 'By Resolve' above to trigger the next route and resolve.";
})
.controller('ResolveController', ['$scope', 'dataService',
function($scope, dataService) {
$scope.title = "Router and resolve";
$scope.blurb = "Click 'By ng-controller' above to trigger the original route and test ng-controller and the wrapper service, 'dataService'.";
$scope.data = dataService;
}
])
.controller('WrapperController', ['$scope', '$controller', 'Service',
function($scope, $controller, Service) {
$scope.title = "Resolving..."; //this controller could of course not show anything until after the resolve, but demo purposes...
Service.getData().then(function(result) {
$controller('ResolveController', {
$scope: $scope, //passing the same scope on through
dataService: {
data: result
}
});
});
}
])
.service('Service', ['$timeout',
function($timeout) {
return {
getData: function() {
//return a test promise
return $timeout(function() {
return "Data from Service!";
}, 1000);
}
};
}
])
// our wrapper service, that will resolve the promise internally and update a property on an object we can return (by reference)
.service('dataService', function(Service) {
// creating a return object with a data property, matching the structure we return from the router resolve
var _result = {
data: null
};
Service.getData().then(function(result) {
_result.data = result;
return result;
});
return _result;
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.27/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.27/angular-route.min.js"></script>
<div ng-app="myApp">
By ng-controller |
By Resolve |
By Wrapper Controller
<div ng-view />
</div>
Create a new module inside which you have the service to inject like seen below.
var module = angular.module('myservice', []);
module.service('userService', function(Service){
return Service.getData();
});
Inject newly created service module inside your app module
angular.module('myApp')
.controller('MyController', ['$scope', 'myservice', function ($scope, myservice) {
$scope.data = data;
// now you can use new dependent service anywhere here.
}
]
);
You can use the mechanism of the prototype.
.when('/someUrl', {
template : '<div ng-controller="MyController" ng-template="some.html"></div>',
controller: function (data) {
var pr = this;
pr.data = data;
},
controllerAs: 'pr',
resolve : {
data: ['Service', function (Service) {
return Service.getData();
}]
}
})
angular.module('myApp')
.controller('MyController', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
$scope.data = $scope.pr.data; //magic
}
]
);
Now wherever you want to use
'<div ng-controller="MyController"></div>'
you need to ensure that there pr.data in the Scope of the calling controller. As an example uib-modal
var modalInstance = $modal.open({
animation: true,
templateUrl: 'modal.html',
resolve: {
data: ['Service', function (Service) {
return Service.getData();
}]
},
controller: function ($scope, $modalInstance, data) {
var pr = this;
pr.data = data;
pr.ok = function () {
$modalInstance.close();
};
},
controllerAs:'pr',
size:'sm'
});
modal.html
<script type="text/ng-template" id="modal.html">
<div class="modal-body">
<div ng-include="some.html" ng-controller="MyController"></div>
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button class="btn btn-primary pull-right" type="button" ng-click="pr.ok()">{{ 'ok' | capitalize:'first'}}</button>
</div>
</script>
And now you can use $scope.data = $scope.pr.data; in MyController
pr.data is my style. You can rewrite the code without PR.
the basic principle of working with ng-controller described in this video https://egghead.io/lessons/angularjs-the-dot
Presuming that Service.getData() returns a promise, MyController can inject that Service as well. The issue is that you want to delay running the controller until the promise resolves. While the router does this for you, using the controller directly means that you have to build that logic.
angular.module('myApp')
.controller('MyController', ['$scope', 'Service', function ($scope, Service) {
$scope.data = {}; // default values for data
Service.getData().then(function(data){
// data is now resolved... do stuff with it
$scope.data = data;
});
}]
);
Now this works great when using the controller directly, but in your routing example, where you want to delay rendering a page until data is resolved, you are going to end up making two calls to Service.getData(). There are a few ways to work around this issue, like having Service.getData() return the same promise for all caller, or something like this might work to avoid the second call entirely:
angular.module('myApp')
.controller('MyController', ['$scope', '$q', 'Service', function ($scope, $q, Service) {
var dataPromise,
// data might be provided from router as an optional, forth param
maybeData = arguments[3]; // have not tried this before
$scope.data = {}; //default values
// if maybeData is available, convert it to a promise, if not,
// get a promise for fetching the data
dataPromise = !!maybeData?$q.when(maybeData):Service.getData();
dataPromise.then(function(data){
// data is now resolved... do stuff with it
$scope.data = data;
});
}]
);
I was trying to solve the problem using ng-init but came across the following warnings on angularjs.org
The only appropriate use of ngInit is for aliasing special properties
of ngRepeat, as seen in the demo below. Besides this case, you should
use controllers rather than ngInit to initialize values on a scope.
So I started searching for something like ng-resolve and came across the following thread:
https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/2092
The above link consists of a demo fiddle that have ng-resolve like functionality. I think ng-resolve can become a feature in the future versions of angular 1.x. For now we can work around with the directive mentioned in the above link.
'data' from route resolve will not be available for injection to a controller activated other than route provider. it will be available only to the view configured in the route provider.
if you want the data to the controller activated directly other than routeprovider activation, you need to put a hack for it.
see if this link helps for it:
http://www.johnpapa.net/route-resolve-and-controller-activate-in-angularjs/
Getting data in "resolve" attribute is the functionality of route (routeProvider) , not the functionality of controller.
Key( is your case : 'data') in resolve attribute is injected as service.
That's why we are able fetch data from that service.
But to use same controller in different place , you have fetch data in controller.
Try this
Service:
(function() {
var myService = function($http) {
var getData = function() {
//return your result
};
return {
getData:getData
};
};
var myApp = angular.module("myApp");
myApp.factory("myService", myService);
}());
Controller:
(function () {
var myApp = angular.module("myApp");
myApp.controller('MyController', [
'$scope', 'myService', function($scope, myService) {
$scope.data = myService.getData();
}
]);
//Routing
.when('/someUrl', {
templateUrl : 'some.html',
controller : 'MyController',
resolve : {
data: $scope.data,
}
})
}());
I'm in the process of learning Angular, and I'm trying to set up a state with a controller using ui-router. I have a main module named app.js, and then sub-modules based on different content.
The first sub-module is diary.js. Everything is working with this controller other than the controllers. The state works in the UI, etc. When I make the controller directly in diary.js (such as controller : function () { //stuff }, it works fine). But when I try to include an already defined controller for the diary state (like it's currently written), I get the following error (I couldn't post the whole error because stackoverflow won't let me have that many links):
"Error: [ng:areq]
errors.angularjs.org/1.2.23/ng/areq?p0=DiaryCtrl&p1=not%20aNaNunction%2C%20got%20undefined
at Error (native) ...
/** diary.js */
'use strict';
(function () {
angular.module('diary', ['ui.router'])
.config(['$stateProvider', function ($stateProvider) {
// States
$stateProvider.state('diary', {
url : '/diary',
templateUrl : 'diary/html/diary.html',
controller : 'DiaryCtrl'
});
}]);
}).call();
Here is the code for the DiaryCtrl.js (the defined controller).
/** DiaryCtrl.js */
'use strict';
angular.module('diary')
.controller('DiaryCtrl', [$scope, $http, function ($scope, $http) {
$http.get('api/json/diaries.html').success(function (data) {
$scope.diaries = data;
}).error(function (status) {
console.log(status);
});
}]);
I'd appreciate any help. Let me know if you need more information.
I am fairly certain it is because your injections ($scope & $http) in the DiaryCtrl are not strings:
.controller('DiaryCtrl', [$scope, $http, function ($scope, $http)
should be:
// Notice the added quotations around the scope and http injections in the array
.controller('DiaryCtrl', ['$scope', '$http', function ($scope, $http) {
angular.module('app.services', []).service("test", function($http, $rootScope){
this.test=function(){
$rootScope.name="test1";
};
};
angular.module('app.controllers', []).controller('TestController', function ($scope, test) {
test.send();
})
I dont get an error but the changes don't get applied to the UI. I tried $scope.apply() and got an error.
We need to tell Angular which modules your module depends on, In our case the main module is app.controllers.
To call service from different model we need tell to controller where is our service:
['app.services']
JS
var appServices = angular.module('app.services', []);
var appCtrl = angular.module('app.controllers', ['app.services']);
appServices
.service("test", function ($http, $rootScope) {
this.send = function () {
$rootScope.name = "test1";
};
});
appCtrl.controller('TestController', function ($scope, test) {
test.send();
});
Demo Fiddle
I think you should change ".service" by ".factory".
As I can see in the creating services docs there are 3 ways of creating custom services. One of then is using factory way, as the following:
var myModule = angular.module('myModule', []);
myModule.factory('serviceId', function() {
var shinyNewServiceInstance;
//factory function body that constructs shinyNewServiceInstance
return shinyNewServiceInstance;
});
Hope to help.