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Angular.js: service vs provider vs factory?
I'm sure this has bothered you - it has bothered me for some time now. What are the differences between AngularJS module's Service, Provider and Factory?
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angular js - configuration for different enviroments
how do you manage configuration variables/constant for different enviroments?
This could be an example:
my rest api it's reachable on localhost:7080/myapi/, but my friend that works on the same ...
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Should services expose their asynchronicity?
I'm writing a service that will retrieve data asynchronously ($http or $resource). I can hide the fact that it is asynchronous by returning an array that will initially be empty, but that will ...
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Angular Service Definition: service or factory
I am an angular newbie, I am building an application, one thing really puzzling me is there are couple of ways of defining a service, and I read more from this link: How to define service
then it ...
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AngularJS - The correct way of binding to a service properties
I’m looking for the best practice of how to bind to a service property in AngularJS.
I have worked through multiple examples to understand how to bind to properties in a service that is created using ...
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2answers
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Force AngularJS service to return data before loading controller
I have a service in Angular which uses my API to get user information and provides it to my controllers. It's set up like this:
angular.module('myApp', ['myApp.filters', 'myApp.services', ...
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Simple Angular $routeProvider resolve test. What is wrong with this code?
I have created a simple Angular JS $routeProvider resolve test application. It gives the following error:
Error: Unknown provider: dataProvider <- data
I would appreciate it if someone could ...
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1answer
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AngularJS Service Passing Data Between Controllers
When using an AngularJS service to try and pass data between two controllers, my second controller always receives undefined when trying to access data from the service. I am guessing this is because ...
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2answers
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AngularJS: when to use service instead of factory
Please bear with me here. I know there are other answers such as:
Angular.js: service vs provider vs factory?
However I still can't figure out when you'd use service over factory.
From what I ...
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2answers
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Uploading a file with AngularJS and bluimp on success callback of another form
I have followed the following tutorial in order to integrate the notorious bluimp jQuery file uploader in my AngularJS project.
After some research I found that in the options array, witihn the ...
3
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1answer
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Firebase data normalized. How should I fetch a collection based on this structure?
I think I am getting close, I am able to print out the ID of books belonging to a user but have been trying unsuccessfully to fetch the list of books belonging to a user, from the firebase books ...
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AngularJS Directive not able to access isolate scope objects
I am trying to put some default values in my directive with Isolate scope. Basically, I need to do some DOM manipulations using the scope object when my directive is bound. Below is my code:
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AngularJS factory http returns empty
I'm trying AngularJS for the first time. I'm getting JSON data from a http-get request using a factory, but the object is returned empty, before the ajax-request is done.
Factory:
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2answers
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AngularJS: open a new browser window, yet still retain scope and controller, and services
I'm writing an angularJS app. In this particular controller, I open a new browser window through the $window.open service. But in the new window, all the $scope variables are lost.
I tried to use ...
3
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1answer
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Dirty checking with shared service between controllers, One way works the other does not?
While attempting to answer a question regarding sharing data between two separate controllers I ran into a question .
I usually use services for for this task and began to create a jsfiddle, but I ...
0
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2answers
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How to create this global constant to be shared among controllers in Angularjs?
Suppose I want to make this a variable a constant to be shared among controllers in Angularjs;
$webroot = "localhost/webroot/app"
After some investigation, it seems services are the way to do. But ...
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4answers
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How can I test an an AngularJS service from the console?
I have a service like:
angular.module('app').factory('ExampleService', function(){
this.f1 = function(world){
return 'Hello '+world;
}
return this;
})
I would like to test it from the ...
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4answers
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How to access the services from RESTful API in my angularjs page
I am very new to angularJS. I am searching for accessing services from RESTful API but I didn't get any idea. please help me to do that.
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2answers
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How to wait till the response comes from the $http request, in angularjs?
I am using some data which is from a RESTful service in multiple pages.
So I am using angular factories for that. So, I required to get the data once from the server, and everytime I am getting the ...
6
votes
1answer
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The better approach to design AngularJS services
I'm writing an AngularJS client application that would interact with a REST server.
To manage the client / server interaction I'm using the $resource abstraction.
Actually I'm writing every resource ...
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2answers
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AngularJS, is this way of using service good?
i've this HTML:
<p>Hello {{name}}</p>
and the controller is:
function myCtrl(scope, service) {
scope.name = service.getUsername(); // service.getUsername() return "World!"
}
...
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2answers
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Sharing data between AngularJS services
Is there a way to share data between services in AngularJS?
Use case: data aggregation from different services
For example I want a service1 that loads some data from a REST Service. Then another ...
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3answers
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How can I extend $q promise in Angularjs with a .succes and .error
I wrote this little code in a custom service in AngularJS.
In my service :
var deferred = $q.defer();
var promise = deferred.promise;
deferred.resolve('success');
...
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2answers
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Cordova + Angularjs + Device Ready
I am developing a mobile application using Cordova and AngularJS. How do I restrict bootstrapping of AngluarJS before Cordova device ready. Basically I don't want to use any of AngularJS controllers ...
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1answer
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How to enable cors request with angular.js-resource
I have an angular.js application and i need to do CORS request.
I want to define my rest services "the angular" using angular resources, described here: http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_11.
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2answers
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AngularJS service retry when promise is rejected
I'm getting data from an async service inside my controller like this:
myApp.controller('myController', ['$scope', 'AsyncService',
function($scope, AsyncService) {
$scope.getData = ...
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1answer
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AngularJS factory property isn't being updated in $scope when not using push()
I have a factory that is retrieving the data from an external source. As soon as i get the data, i use a second factory to filter it by a certain criteria.
The factory property is assigned to scope.
...
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2answers
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Is there a loosly coupled way to update a parent directive from a dynamically created view/controller that is a child of the parent
In my app I have window instances. The app can contain multiple windows and windows can contain multiple views. The views are children of each window instance. The windows and view creator are ...
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1answer
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AngularJS $location.path(path) not updating at first
I have a piece of code where I call $location.path(name) and nothing seems to happens (at first). I can call console.log($location.path()) and it does show the new path -- but the view doesn't change.
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2answers
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AngularJS. Best practice concerning proper two way data binding from a service
I have an 'Account' service which acts as a centralized data storage used in multiple controllers and views. This service will hold, besides getter and setter methods all data associated with two ...
0
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0answers
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excel file not getting after returning from Angularjs Service
I have situation where i have to call angularjs service method to post data to C# controller which in turns return me excel file which i want to save.
here is code....
HTML :
<div ...
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Angular how to deal with unavailable URLs requested by $http.get or $http.jsonp, which are executed by $q.all()
I've the following code:
eventResourcesCall = $http.jsonp('https://apicall/to/serverA');
eventsDetailsCall = $http.get('https://apicall/to/serverB');
$q.all([eventResourcesCall, ...
0
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1answer
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AngularJS share asynchronous service data between controllers
I know this issue has been asked several times in stackoverflow, but I couldn't find a proper answer.
What I need to achieve is to be able to initiate some asynchronous call in one controller and ...
3
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1answer
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Abstracting $http calls into service
I'm wondering what the best way to abstract $http calls into an angularjs service is. I've done a bit of research and this seems to be the most common way:
app.factory('myService', function($http) {
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1answer
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Restangular api calls to external getting 'No Access Allowed'
Following Restangular's documentation and includes an example of this:
// GET to http://www.google.com/ You set the URL in this case
Restangular.allUrl('googlers', ...
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How to create a object with properties that are sharable among controllers in AngularJS?
This is a follow-up question to How to create this global constant to be shared among controllers in Angularjs?
The answer provided allows a constant $webroot to be shared among controllers.
app = ...
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1answer
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Resolve login in $routeProvider using controller
I'm trying to restrict a user's access to a /topics view and a /question view. I have a login form on the home page. My HomeCtrl has the following login function:
$scope.doLogin = function() {
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0answers
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Using Angularjs $http in browser console
I've testing AngularJS services in browser console during development for quick verification. The way I inject a service into console is as describe in this question or
var $inj = ...
1
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2answers
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AngularJS directive and pulling data from a service
I am trying to figure out the correct way to pull data into my directive from a service. For some reason my $watch statement isn't triggered when the data is loaded.
link: function(scope, element, ...
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1answer
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AngularJS - AlertFactory open dialog behavior
i'm creating an AlertFactory because ui.bootstrap.dialog doesn't works in my app.
So i type follow code: http://jsfiddle.net/Premier/BHqKB/17/
enter code here
It works very well if you click on ...
0
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1answer
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Angular controller can't get data from service
Background: I'm learning AngularJS, I've written sample code to create a service for a module, and pass the data from service into one of the module's controller, all works fine.
But yesterday when I ...
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1answer
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angularJS $stateParams in service
I try to fetch JSON data on the page post/:postId within the following factory in my service:
angular.module('sampleapp.services', [])
.factory('DetailService', function($http) {
return {
...
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1answer
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ngModel' deep objects creation mechanism
I want to use angular' mechanism for deep property nesting , something that ng-model directive is using. I mean we can create very "deep" object in a scope by writing : ...
0
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2answers
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How share Service dynamic data between Controllers and Directives
I'd like to know what pattern to use, if I need my Service to share it's dynamic data between Controller, Directives, etc. The reason I mention dynamic, is because I'd like to load new data and this ...
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2answers
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Angularjs - Declaring factory with a single object with a nested array - getting ReferenceError: … is not defined
I have a factory with several different methods and I am trying to declare an object that has an array nested in it. That one nested array will be the main driving force for my app and it will have ...
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Using angularjs service ($cookies) in factory registered using couchpotato
I'm using angularjs with couchpotato for help with lazy loading. My question is how do I reference angularjs services like $http, $cookies in my service registered using couchpotato?
The normal ...
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$watch not working on variable from other controller?
I have one controller which displays a checklist, and stores the selection in an array.
My other controller runs an $http.get on the array from the first controller.
How do I set a $watch so that ...
