How to check if an angularjs controller has been defined

Question

I\'ve got an app defined this way:

angular.module(\"myApp\", [...])
  .config(function ($stateProvider, $controllerProvider) {
    if (isControllerDefined(co         


        

Answer 1

There is currently no easy way of fetching a list of controllers. That is hidden for internal use only. You would have to go to the source code and add a public method that return the internal controllers variable (in $ControllerProvider function) https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/ng/controller.js#L16

this.getControllers = function() {
    return controllers;
    // This will return an object of all the currently defined controllers
  };

Then you can just do

app.config(function($controllerProvider) {
    var myCtrl = $controllerProvider.getControllers()['myController'];
});