Angular JS: how to bind to promises

Question

I am trying to bind a promise to a view. I don\'t know if you can do that directly, but that\'s what I\'m attempting to do. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

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Answer 1

WARNING: this answer was accurate when it was written, but as of 1.2 the Angular template engine does not handle promises transparently! -- @Malvolio

Yes the template engine (and expressions) handle promises transparently, but I would assign the promise to a scope property in the controller and not call everytime a function that returns a new promise (I think it's your problem, resolved promise is lost because a new promise is returned everytime).

JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/YQwaf/36/

HTML:

    Region Code 
    Country CodeUnited StatesCanada

JS:

function addressValidationController($scope, $q, $timeout) {
    var regions = {
        US: [{
            code: 'WI',
            name: 'Wisconsin'},
        {
            code: 'MN',
            name: 'Minnesota'}],
        CA: [{
            code: 'ON',
            name: 'Ontario'}]
    };

    function getRegions(countryCode) {
        console.log('getRegions: ' + countryCode);
        var deferred = $q.defer();
        $timeout(function() {
            var countryRegions = regions[countryCode];
            if (countryRegions === undefined) {
                console.log('resolve empty');
                deferred.resolve([]);
            } else {
                console.log('resolve');
                deferred.resolve(countryRegions);
            }
        }, 1000);
        return deferred.promise;
    };

    $scope.regions = [];

    // Manage country changes:
    $scope.$watch('countryCode', function(countryCode) {
        if (angular.isDefined(countryCode)) {
            $scope.regions = getRegions(countryCode);
        }
        else {
            $scope.regions = [];
        }
    });
}​