Immediately return a resolved promise using AngularJS

Question

I\'m trying to get my head around promises in JavaScript (in particular AngularJS).

I have a function in a service, let\'s call it fooService, that chec

Answer 1

You could use the $q.defer() like this:

this.update = function (data_loaded) {
    var deferred = $q.defer();

    if (data_loaded) {
        deferred.resolve(null); // put something that your callback will know the data is loaded or just put your loaded data here.
    } else {
        Restangular.all('someBase').customGet('foo/bar').then(function(data) {
            // Do something here when update is finished
            deferred.resolve(data);
        }
    }

    return deferred.promise;
};

Hope this helps.