How can I use a registered controller in my angular directive?

Question

I have a controller registered like this:

myModule.controller(\'MyController\', function ($scope, ...some dependencies...)
{
    ....

Using

Answer 1

It appears that you can just use:

controller: 'MyController' 

IF the controller is in the same module as the directive or a higher level module composed of the module with the directive in it.

When I tried it with two different modules composed into an app module (one for the controller and one for the directive), that did not work.

Answer 2

The answer you've already accepted works, and in almost all cases should be chosen...

For sake of completeness: Here is how you can use a controller from another module

(PS: Don't do this. lol :P)

var app = angular.module('myApp', ['myDirectives']);

app.controller('AppCtrl1', function($scope) {
    $scope.foo = 'bar';
});


var directives = angular.module('myDirectives', []);

directives.directive('test', function($controller) {
   return {
       template: '<h1>{{foo}}</h1>',
       link: function(scope, elem, attrs) {
          var controller = $controller('AppCtrl1', { $scope: scope });

          console.log($scope.foo); //bar
       }
   };
});