I asked the wrong question yesterday (and got a goodanswer that worked), but am realizing it's not what I needed. I need to be able to retrieve JSON data (preferably once), store it, and access it throughout my service. The challenge I'm having is that all the examples I can find talk about using JSON and passing to the app/controller, whereas in this case I need to get it, check it, and then it dictates what my module/service does.
For instance, I have my App and Controller, and then I have a module such as (this is psuedo-code, not meant to run):
angular.module("myModule")
.service("myService1", function($q, myService2, $http) {
this.getModel = function() {
return {
title: "My Title",
desc: "My Desc"
options: function () {
if (condition A)
return "option1";
else
return "option2";
}
};
};
})
.service("myService2", function($q, $http) {
this.getCfgInfo = function () {
var defer = $q.defer();
$http.get("my/json/url").then(function(response) {
defer.resolve(response.data);
});
return defer.promise;
};
})
In this example, I'm wanting to get the JSON, and use it within myService1 for both literal values (title, desc) as well as for conditions (condition A within the if).
I know I can do something like this (thanks to Joel for helping yesterday):
service("myService1", function($q, myService2, $http) {
// get a promise object for the configuration info
var cfgProm = rtDataMapper.getCfgInfo()
this.getModel = function() {
return {
title: cfgProm.then(function(response) {
return response.JSON_NAME;
}),
and it works fine as I've got the title mapped back into my model and there is a watch(), but I'm stumped as to how I get, store, and use the JSON within the service itself as a conditional (i.e. if (condition A) where condition A is coming from the JSON. Trying to wrap these in .then() doesn't seem to make sense, or at least I can't figure out how to do it.
I'm new to Angular and am attempting to modify some code that was left to us. I'm guessing I don't need the myService2 just to get the JSON. Can anyone help point me in the right direction? I've spent several hours online but can't seem to find a relevant reference/example.
Thanks