So to summarise I am using angular-ui router resolve function to retrieve state specific data. However it doesn't seem to full wait for the promise to resolve:
state('parent.ChildState', {
url: '/myUrl?param1¶m1',
templateUrl: 'views/list.view.html',
controller: 'MyController',
resolve: {
data: resolveData
}
}).
function resolveData($stateParams, Utils) {
var filters = Utils.getFilters($stateParams);
DataService.myDataObj = DataService.get(filters, function(result, headers) {
DataService.myDataObj = result;
});
return DataService.myDataObj;
// Note I have also tried returning directly the DataService.get call however this makes all the below console log statements as undefined (see below for the controller code to know what I mean). So I do the assignment first and then return that.
}
Now in the controller I had a function that executes on load like so:
function ExpensesController(DataService) {
$scope.viewData = DataService;
initData();
function initData() {
// this generally logs a ngResource and shows the full data obj on console
console.log($scope.viewData.myDataObj);
// this gets undefined on console
console.log($scope.viewData.myDataObj.someField1);
// this log fine, however why do I need to do promise
// resolve? should be resolved already right?
$scope.viewData.myDataObj.$promise.then(function() {
console.log($scope.viewData.myDataObj.someField1);
});