Angularjs - Decorate Controllers

Question

I am trying to set up a decorator for my controllers. My intention is to introduce some common behaviour across all the controllers in my app.

I have it configured

Answer 1

In Angular 1.4.x modules have decorator method, $provide.decorator is no longer needed.

For monkey-patching APIs it is always preferable to use arguments instead of enumerating them explicitly, the chance that it will break is much lesser.

angular.module('myApp', ['ng']).decorator('$controller', function ($delegate) {
    return function (constructor, locals) {
        var controller = $delegate.apply(null, arguments);

        return angular.extend(function () {
            locals.$scope.common = ...;
            return controller();
        }, controller);
    };
});