how can i extend a service

Question

I am fairly new to angularjs and am not able to find any documentation or examples for this. What I am looking to do is to extend a basic service so that i can use the metho

Answer 1

Sorry if I post here but may be it's a good place to do it. I refer to this post

watch out to extend a service/factory because are singleton so you can extend a service/factory once.

'use strict';
            angular.module('animal', [])
                .factory('Animal',function(){
                        return {
                            vocalization:'',
                            vocalize : function () {
                                console.log('vocalize: ' + this.vocalization);
                            }
                        }

                });
                angular.module('dog', ['animal'])
                    .factory('Dog', function (Animal) {
                        Animal.vocalization = 'bark bark!';
                        Animal.color = 'red';
                        return Animal;
                    });

                angular.module('cat', ['animal'])
                   .factory('Cat', function (Animal) {
                        Animal.vocalization = 'meowwww';
                        Animal.color = 'white';
                        return Animal;
                    });
                 angular.module('app', ['dog','cat'])
                .controller('MainCtrl',function($scope,Cat,Dog){
                     $scope.cat = Cat;
                     $scope.dog = Dog;
                     console.log($scope.cat);
                     console.log($scope.dog);
                    //$scope.cat = Cat;
                });

but if you do like

'use strict';
            angular.module('animal', [])
                .factory('Animal',function(){
                    return function(vocalization){
                        return {
                            vocalization:vocalization,
                            vocalize : function () {
                                console.log('vocalize: ' + this.vocalization);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                });    
                angular.module('app', ['animal'])
                    .factory('Dog', function (Animal) {
                        function ngDog(){
                            this.prop = 'my prop 1';
                            this.myMethod = function(){
                                console.log('test 1');
                            }
                        }
                        return angular.extend(Animal('bark bark!'), new ngDog());
                    })
                    .factory('Cat', function (Animal) {
                        function ngCat(){
                            this.prop = 'my prop 2';
                            this.myMethod = function(){
                                console.log('test 2');
                            }
                        }
                        return angular.extend(Animal('meooow'), new ngCat());
                    })
                .controller('MainCtrl',function($scope,Cat,Dog){
                     $scope.cat = Cat;
                     $scope.dog = Dog;
                     console.log($scope.cat);
                     console.log($scope.dog);
                    //$scope.cat = Cat;
                });

it works