Angularjs: a Service that serves multiple $resource urls / data sources?

Question

I have an Angular service/provider that serves json data to my controller which works great:

    angular.module(\'myApp.services\', [\'ngResource\']).
               


        

Answer 1

I'm assuming you want to execute some code when both files have loaded. Promises work really well for this. I don't think resources return promises, but you can use the $http service for simple ajax calls.

Here I define one service each for the two data files, and a third service that returns a promise that gets fulfilled when both files are done loading.

factory('states',function($http) {
    return $http.get('../data/states.json');
}).
factory('countries',function($http) {
    return $http.get('../data/countries.json');
}).
factory('statesAndCountries', function($q, states, countries) {
    return $q.all([states, countries]);
});

Then in your controller:

statesAndCountries.then(function(data) {
    var stateData = data[0];
    var countryData = data[1];
    // do stuff with stateData and countryData here
});