Great, so let's focus on what's happening in the controller. As Sander said, you're returning a promise from you service. *That promise needs to be resolved. *Check out the documentation here on the syntax, and see if it doesn't provide you the data you're expecting. https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$q
Feel free to paste in a bit more of your controller code too. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:28 PM, mark goldin <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. serviceName.getData(); > 2. The url points to a text file on the local web server. Navigating from > Browser to the file opens it with no problem. > > On Friday, September 5, 2014 9:58:27 AM UTC-5, Thomas Murphy wrote: >> >> 1. What are you doing in the controller once you call >> serviceName.getData()? >> 2. What url are you calling in $http.get? If you're not calling anything, >> you'll get no data. >> >> Best, >> Thomas >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:49 AM, mark goldin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I also found this code: >>> function ($http, $q) { >>> return { >>> getData : function(){ >>> var deferred = $q.defer(); >>> var promise = $http.get(url).success(function (response) { >>> deferred.resolve(response); >>> }); >>> // Return the promise to the controller >>> return deferred.promise; >>> } >>> } >>> >>> and in controller to get data: serviceName.getData(); >>> >>> but I get no data. Can you please explain why is not working? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >>> On Friday, September 5, 2014 9:39:49 AM UTC-5, mark goldin wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok, I see how it works. >>>> Another question. Is it possible to have just one function *MyTestService >>>> *and run it like this? >>>> <div ng-controller='*MyTestService *as vm'> >>>> <p>the result from the service load:</p> >>>> <pre>{{vm.data|json}}</pre> >>>> </div> >>>> >>>> On Friday, September 5, 2014 9:28:42 AM UTC-5, mark goldin wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What vm.data shown in index.html would come from if I remove the >>>>> TestMyService function? >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, September 5, 2014 1:32:11 AM UTC-5, Sander Elias wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Mark, >>>>>> >>>>>> You mean something like this: http://plnkr.co/edit/5cE >>>>>> NSfOAhKJDI0iwe6ZV?p=preview >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> Sander >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
