I have been trying AngularJS for a experimental project and I came along with this problem.
In my html I want to display a list of items
Index.html
<h1>Some list</h1>
<div ng-controller=datlist>
<div ng-repeat=item in items>
<div>Item description: {{item.description}}</div>
<div>Item name: {{item.name}}</div>
</div>
</div>
At first I was using a simple controller to get the information and update the view just using this:
controllers.js (original)
function datlist($scope,$http){
$http({method: 'GET', url: 'http://localhost:61686/getdatlist?format=json', headers: {'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': 'localhost:*'}}).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
$scope.items=data.itemsToReturn;
console.log(data);
}).
error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
console.log(fail);
});
}
This was working pretty well and I could get the list of items. Whilst, by changing my structure to use a factory to make the same request and bind it to $scope.items it doesn't work. I tried a lot of variations of $watch but I couldn't get it to update $scope.items. I found something about $apply but I really can't understand how to use it.
controllers.js (new one)
var datModule = angular.module('datModule',[]);
datModule.controller('datlist', function ($scope, datfactory){
$scope.items = datfactory.getlist();
$scope.$watch($scope.items, $scope.items = datfactory.getlist());
});
datModule.factory('datfactory', function ($http){
var factory = {};
factory.getlist = function(){
$http({method: 'GET', url: 'http://localhost:61686/getdatlist?format=json', headers: {'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': 'localhost:*'}}).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
console.log(data.itemsToReturn); //I get the correct items, all seems ok here
return data.itemsToReturn;
}).
error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
console.log(fail);
});
}
return factory;
});
Any ideas about this will be great.
PS: I found a lot of posts talking about this issue but none of them helped me to get a full solution.
Thanks
