I do have a service. Its called DataFactory. I just found that you can achieve the same results with out using a factory and calling the factory in each controller.
The way I have my app setup I am getting the current users data in a MainController which I set on the body tag so EVERY single page and controller instantiated with that route will have MainController as a parent. I could then load the data using $timeout OR as you mentioned just use a service. Using a service means I call my DataFactory in every single controller that I need that data which although it seems like thats the point of services and dependency injection, it causes multiple calls of the same code. Whereas with a simple timeout I can just grab the data that is already there in the parent controller. I am using the service/ factory method for sure, but I just wanted to know if its bad practice to do it the other way On Thursday, May 1, 2014 4:06:43 PM UTC-4, Chris Rhoden wrote: > > The 0 isn't necessary, and using $timeout to defer some action isn't an > antipattern, but the rest of your message concerns me. If you're > communicating between controllers using $scope, you're doing it wrong. Make > a service if two controllers need to share state. > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Billy Figueroa <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Is is bad practice to use $timeout with a time of 0? >> >> i.e. >> $timeout(function() { >> // some action here >> }, 0); >> >> I find that sometimes data doesn't load in a child controller and I may >> want to use this. I have avoided using it, but what are peoples experience >> with this? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "AngularJS" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > chrisrhoden > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
