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Your guesses sounds perfectly applicable.
You can reuse functionality defined in parent controllers by simply calling methods attached to the parent scope:
HTML
JavaScript
function ParentCtrl($scope) {
$scope.parentMethod = function () {
//method body
};
}
function ChildCtrl($scope) {
$scope.childMethod = function () {
//functionality
$scope.parentMethod();
//functionality
};
}
If you want to use the JavaScript approach with prototype inheritance you can use:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);
function Parent($scope) {
$scope.name = 'Superhero';
$scope.clickParent = function() {
$scope.name = 'Clicked from base controller';
}
}
function Child($scope, $injector) {
debugger;
$injector.invoke(Parent, this, {$scope: $scope});
$scope.name = 'Superhero Child';
$scope.clickChild = function(){
$scope.clickParent();
}
}
Child.prototype = Object.create(Parent.prototype);
http://jsfiddle.net/mhevery/u6s88/12/
For services, for example, you can use:
(function () {
function ParentService(arg1) {
this.arg1 = arg1;
}
function ChildService(arg1, arg2) {
ParentService.call(this, arg1);
this.arg2 = arg2;
}
ChildService.prototype = new ParentService();
app.service('ChildService', ChildService);
}());
Also check this discussion and the blog post about inheritance in AngularJS I posted.