How to return a resolved promise from an AngularJS Service using $q?

Question

My service is:

myApp.service(\'userService\', [
  \'$http\', \'$q\', \'$rootScope\', \'$location\', function($http, $q, $rootScope, $location) {
    var defe         


        

Answer 1

How to simply return a pre-resolved promise in Angular

Resolved promise:

return $q.when( someValue );    // angular 1.2+
return $q.resolve( someValue ); // angular 1.4+, alias to `when` to match ES6

Rejected promise:

return $q.reject( someValue );