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Sending data to factory from controller?

my factory is:
myAppServices.factory('ProfileData',['$http', function($http){
return{
newly_joined:function(callback){
$http.get(
//myUrl will be an url from controller.
myUrl
).success(callback);
}
};
}
]);
and I have three controller which has different URL:
controller1:
AppControllers.controller('ProfileListCtrl',['$scope','$state', '$rootScope', 'ProfileData', '$timeout', function($scope, $state, $rootScope, ProfileData, $timeout ) {
ProfileData.newly_joined(function(response) {
var myUrl= "www.abc...."
//something goes there
});
}]);
controller2:
AppControllers.controller('ProfileListCtrl1',['$scope','$state', '$rootScope', 'ProfileData', '$timeout', function($scope, $state, $rootScope, ProfileData, $timeout ) {
ProfileData.newly_joined(function(response) {
var myUrl= "www.abc...."
//something goes there
});
}]);
and controller 3 is:
AppControllers.controller('ProfileListCtrl2',['$scope','$state', '$rootScope', 'ProfileData', '$timeout', function($scope, $state, $rootScope, ProfileData, $timeout ) {
ProfileData.newly_joined(function(response) {
var myUrl= "www.abc...."
//something goes there
});
}]);
I want different data in different controller because of different URL and I am showing all three details on single web page.
So if there were any method to send 'myUrl' in factory that I can use that for pulling data.
Note: please don't suggest me for using $resource or $routeparams because $resource was not successfull in pulling data from json and I don't want to use big variable Url for my page.
Thanks in advance

All you need to do is add an additional parameter to the newly_joined function:
newly_joined:function(callback, myUrl){
Also, you should be using .then instead of .success

Your factory should be returning promises instead of using callbacks.
myAppServices.factory('ProfileData',['$http', function($http){
return function(myUrl) {
return $http.get(myUrl);
};
}]);
The controller
AppControllers.controller('ProfileListCtrl',['$scope', 'ProfileData', function($scope,ProfileData) {
var myUrl= "www.abc....";
var httpPromise = ProfileData(myUrl);
httpPromise.then(function onFulfilled(response) {
$scope.data = response.data;
}).catch(function onRejected(response) {
console.log("ERROR ", response.status);
});
}]);
The DEMO on JSFiddle
The advantage of using promises is that they retain error information.
Also notice that myUrl is sent to the factory as an argument.
For more information on the advantages of using promises, see Why are Callbacks from Promise Then Methods an Anti-Pattern?

How to use a service with Http request in Angular JS

I'm using AngularJS to build my web application, I've been always using controllers to make HTTP request, which makes things easier and clear for me.
But for a better code structure, and better execution for my application, I wanted to use services instead of controllers to use the web service.
I tried to make :
var app = angular.module('ofcservices', []);
app.factory('news', ['$http', function ($http) {
var news={};
news.getnews= function () {
return $http.get('http://int.footballclub.orange.com/ofc/news?offset=0&limit=5');
};
return news;
}]);
and the code of the controller :
.controller('news', function($scope, ofcservices) {
$scope.news = ofcservices.getnews();
})
Everything seems to be right ?

ofcservices.getnews() is a promise You need manage with the function sucess and error
ofcservices.getnews().
success(function(data) {
$scope.news=data
}).
error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
//show a error
});
As weel change app.factory('news' to app.factory('newsFactory' and call it in controller('news', function($scope, newsFactory) {
You can get more data about promise in the angular documentation

The concept is more or less right, but you should use the callback functions to handle the $http response correctly.
But your controller and service have the same name news, which is BAD :-) and you need to inject the newsService and not the module name.
.controller('newsController', function($scope, newsService) {
newsService.getnews().then(
function(newsData) {
$scope.newsData = newsData
},
function optionalErrorhandler() {});
})

angular
.module('MyApp', [])
.controller('MyController', MyController)
.factory('MyService', MyService);
MyController.$inject = ['$scope','MyService'];
MyService.$inject = ['$http'];
function MyService($http){
var service = {
var myServiceFunction : function(){
$http({
// your http request on success return the data.
}).success(function(data)){
return data;
});
}
};
return service;
}
function MyController($scope, MyService){
MyService.myServiceFunction(); //Call service from the controller.
}

AngularJS App: Load data from JSON once and use it in several controllers

I'm working on a mobile app using AngularJS as a framework, currently I have a structure similar to this:
app.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
templateUrl : 'pages/home.html',
controller : 'homeCtrl'
})
.when('/one', {
templateUrl : 'pages/one.html',
controller : 'oneCtrl'
})
.when('/two', {
templateUrl : 'pages/two.html',
controller : 'twoCtrl'
});
}]);
app.controller('homeCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
}]);
app.controller('oneCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
}]);
app.controller('twoCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
}]);
And then I'm displaying the content with an ng-view:
<div class="ng-view></div>
Things are working well but I need to load data from a JSON file to populate all the content of the app. What I want is to make and an AJAX call only once and then pass the data through all my different controllers. In my first attempt, I thought to create a Service with an $http.get() inside of it and include that in every controller, but it does not work because it makes a different ajax request everytime I inject and use the service. Since I'm new using angular I'm wondering what is the best way or the more "angular way" to achieve this without messing it up.
Edit: I'm adding the code of the service, which is just a simple $http.get request:
app.service('Data', ['$http', function($http) {
this.get = function() {
$http.get('data.json')
.success(function(result) {
return result;
})
}
});

Initialize the promise once, and return a reference to it:
No need to initialize another promise. $http returns one.
Just tack a .then() call on your promise to modify the result
angular.module('app', [])
.service('service', function($http){
this.promise = null;
function makeRequest() {
return $http.get('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
.then(function(resp){
return resp.data;
});
}
this.getPromise = function(update){
if (update || !this.promise) {
this.promise = makeRequest();
}
return this.promise;
}
})
Codepen example
Edit: you may consider using $http cache instead. It can achieve the same results. From the docs:
If multiple identical requests are made using the same cache, which is not yet populated, one request will be made to the server and remaining requests will return the same response.

Try this to get JSON Data from a GET Link:
(function (app) {
'use strict';
app.factory('myService', MyService);
MyService.$inject = ['$q', '$http'];
function MyService($q, $http) {
var data;
var service = {
getData: getData
};
return service;
//////////////////////////////////////
function getData(refresh) {
if (refresh || !data) {
return $http.get('your_source').then(function(data){
this.data = data;
return data;
})
}
else {
var deferrer = $q.defer();
deferrer.resolve(data);
return deferrer.promise;
}
}
}
}(angular.module('app')));
Now you can add this dependency in your controller file and use:
myService.getData().then(function(data){
//use data here
}, function(err){
//Handle error here
});

AngualrJS $http returns undefined?

According to AngularJS, my $http call through a service from my controller is returning undefined?
What seems to be the issue here? I am trying to return the data called, but once passed to the controller the data becomes undefined?
JavaScript
var myStore = angular.module('myStore', [])
.controller('StoreController', ['$scope', 'dataService', function ($scope, dataService) {
$scope.products = dataService.getData();
}])
.service('dataService', ['$http', function($http) {
this.getData = function() {
$http.get('assets/scripts/data/products.json')
.then(function(data) {
return data;
});
};
}]);
HTML
<div class="content">
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="product in products.products">{{product.productName}}</li>
</ul>
</div>
I understand that $http, $q, and $resource all return promises, but I thought I had covered that with .then.

The problem could be that you are not returning the promise created by $http.get in your dataService.getData function. In other words, you may solve your undefined issue by changing what you have to this:
.service('dataService', ['$http', function($http) {
this.getData = function() {
return $http.get...
};
}
If you had multiple calls to $http.get within dataService.getData, here is how you might handle them.
.service('dataService', ['$http', function($http) {
this.getData = function() {
var combinedData, promise;
combinedData = {};
promise = $http.get(<resource1>);
promise.then(function (data1) {
combinedData['resource1Response'] = data1;
return $http.get(<resource2>);
});
return promise.then(function (data2) {
combinedData['resource2Response'] = data2;
return combinedData;
});
};
}]);
A much cleaner way, however, would be to use $q.all
.service('dataService', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q) {
this.getData = function() {
var combinedData, promises;
combinedData = {};
promises = $q.all([
$http.get(<resource1>),
$http.get(<resource2>)
]);
return promises.then(function (allData) {
console.log('resource1 response', allData[0]);
console.log('resource2 response', allData[1]);
return allData;
});
};
}]);

You're problem does lie in the fact that you are not returning a promise but as you stated in #maxenglander's post you may have multiple http calls involved which means you should start creating and resolving your own promise using $q:
.service('dataService', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q) {
return $http.get('assets/scripts/data/products.json')
.then(function(data) {
//possibly do work on data
return <<mutated data>>;
});
}];
or if you have multiple http calls and need to do some combination work you can do something $q.all:
.service('dataService', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q) {
var p1 = $http.get('assets/scripts/data/products.json');
var p2 = $http.get('assets/scripts/data/products2.json');
return $q.all([p1, p2]).then(function(result){
//do some logic with p1 and p2's result
return <<p1&p2s result>>;
});
}];
then in your controller you will need to do:
.controller('StoreController', ['$scope', 'dataService', function ($scope, dataService) {
dataService.getData().then(function(result){
$scope.products = result;
});
}]);
What this allows in your service is now you can do complex calls like say call two webservices inside and wait till they are both complete then resolve the promise.
What I'm trying to express here is that you don't need to return the promise provided by the $http.get function, but since you are doing an async action you DO need to return some promise that will be later fulfilled and acted on.

Angularjs ng-controller with resolve

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,
}
})
}());