Injecting a resolved promise into service

Question

I need to get some information (a schema) from the server before I set up a bunch of services that depend on that information.

My server provides a schema that defines v

Answer 1

You get a promise because your service function immediately evaluates its body when you call it (as functions do). Normally, a service should return an object so that the consumer (another service, controller, whatever) may then call the functions on that object when it needs to.

services.factory('schema', function($q, $http) {
return {
  get: function() {
    var deferred = $q.defer();
    $http.get('schema/').then(function(response) {
      schema = // some function of response.data
      deferred.resolve(schema);
    }, function() {
      deferred.reject('There was a problem fetching the schema');
    });
    return deferred.promise;
  }
}

});