Ionic Framework Interaction with API - angularjs

I'm trying to retrieve information from Reddit's JSON API(RedditUrl.json) and show it on my Ionic Creator App. I've bound the HTML and JS by typing {{variable}}, so that's not the problem. In addition to that, I typed Angular Directives on the component I'm working with like:
ng-app = "ionicApp" ng-controller = "MainCtrl"
Actual JS code:
function ($scope, $stateParams) {
console.log('Mert');
angular.module('ionicApp', [])
.controller('MainCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
$http.get('https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews.json').then(function(resp) {
$scope.title = resp.data.title;
$scope.num_comments = resp.data.num_comments;
$scope.ups = resp.data.ups;
console.log('Mert');
// For JSON responses, resp.data contains the result
}, function(err) {
console.error('Selami');
console.error('ERR', err);
// err.status will contain the status code
})
});
}
I want to parse dynamic data to the app but am getting in the console:
Error: [ng:areq] Argument 'MainCtrl' is not a function, got undefined.
What am I missing here? If I don't write the directives, values are being blank.

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AngularJS - Running a function once on load

I am trying to run an $http function when my AngularJS application first loads.
This $http function needs to finish before any of the controllers in my application could properly function. How would I go about doing this? This sounds like a promise, but it sounds like I would be creating a promise in each controller...
I currently have the function that I want to run first like this:
app.run(function() {
$http.get('link').success(function(data) {
// success function. The data that I get from this HTTP call will be saved to a service.
}).error(function(error) {
});
});
However, sometimes the controller will load before the http call finishes.
The problem
Angular is not dynamic, you cannot add controller dynamically neither factory, etc. Also you cannot defer controller bootstrap, angular loads everything together, and it's quite disadvantage (will be fixed in Angular 2)
The cure
But javascript itself has very important feature - closure, which works anywhere, anytime.
And angular has some internal services that can be injected outside of angular ecosystem, even into browser console. Those services injected as shown below. We technically could use anything else (jQuery.ajax, window.fetch, or even with XMLHttpRequest), but let's stick with total angular solution
var $http_injected = angular.injector(["ng"]).get("$http");
The act
First of all, we defer whole angular app bootstrap, inject http service. Then you make your needed request, receive data and then closure get's to work, we pass received data into some service, or we could also assign in to some angular.constant or angular.value but let's just make demo with angular.service, so when your service has data, bootstrap whole app, so that all controllers get initialized with your needed data
Basically that kind of tasks solved like this
<body>
<div ng-controller="Controller1">
<b>Controller1</b>
{{text}}
{{setting.data.name}}
</div>
<hr>
<div ng-controller="Controller2">
<b>Controller2</b>
{{text}}
{{setting.data.name}}
</div>
<script>
//define preloader
var $http_injected = angular.injector(["ng"]).get("$http");
$http_injected.get('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1').then(function(successResponse) {
//define app
angular.module('app', []);
//define test controllers
//note, usually we see 'controller1 loaded' text before 'settings applied', because controller initialized with this data, but in this demo, we will not see 'controller1 loaded' text, as we use closure to assign data, so it's instantly changed
angular.module('app').controller('Controller1', function($scope, AppSetting) {
$scope.text = 'controller1 loaded';
$scope.setting = AppSetting.setting;
$scope.$watch('setting', function(e1 ,e2){
$scope.text = 'settings applied'
});
});
angular.module('app').controller('Controller2', function($scope, AppSetting) {
$scope.text = 'controller2 loaded';
$scope.setting = AppSetting.setting;
$scope.$watch('setting', function(e1 ,e2){
$scope.text = 'settings applied'
});
});
//define test services, note we assign it here, it's possible
//because of javascript awesomeness (closure)
angular.module('app').service('AppSetting', function() {
this.setting = successResponse;
});
//bootstrap app, we cannot use ng-app, as it loads app instantly
//but we bootstrap it manually when you settings come
angular.bootstrap(document.body, ['app']);
});
</script>
</body>
Plunker demo
You can do this when you configure your routes
app.config(['$routeProvider', function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
controller: 'MainCtrl',
templateUrl: 'main.html',
resolve: {
data: ['$http',
function($http)
{
return $http.get('/api/data').then(
function success(response) { return response.data.rows[0]; },
function error(reason) { return false; }
);
}
]
}
});
}]);
Similar question:
AngularJS - routeProvider resolve calling a service method
AngularJS: $routeProvider when resolve $http returns response obj instead of my obj
Heres a plunkr I found using a service, which is what I would recommend.
http://plnkr.co/edit/XKGC1h?p=info

angularjs controller giving Unknown Provider for $stateParams

I am new to angular js, I am creating a test app to understand the flow, however when I am trying to use $stateParams then my controller is not loading, in console I am getting the error message which is redirecting me to https://docs.angularjs.org/error/$injector/unpr?p0= where I am able to see this
Error: error:unpr Unknown Provider
My controller looks like below
angular.module('NerdCtrl', []).controller('NerdController', ["$scope","$stateParams", "Nerd", function($scope, $stateParams, Nerd) {
$scope.getAll = function() {
Nerd.get().success(function(data, res) {
$scope.nerds = data
})
}
$scope.saveNerd = function(nerd){
Nerd.create(nerd).success(function(data, res){
console.log(data)
});
}
$scope.getNerd = function(){
console.log($stateParams.id)
}
}]);
Nerd is a factory which I have created for services
If I am not including $stateParams then everything is working fine as expected.

Is there a way to hold off rendering the AngularJS view before all the AngularJS $scope data has been retrieved?

This might be a beginner question, but I am retrieving data via http calls in AngularJS and setting them as properties in the $scope variable. However, since http calls take a while, my page tries to load AngularJS more than once in order to render different parts of the page as more the data is retrieved. Is there a way around this? (to hold off on loading the page before all data has been retrieved)
What you could do is to use ng-hide or ng-cloak, so that whatever should not be displayed until the http call fully loaded the data would remain hidden.
take a look at the resolve property in the route settings. If you set something to be resolved the router will resolve this before going to the controller.
app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/',
{
templateUrl: "app.html",
controller: "AppCtrl"
resolve: {
app: function ($q, $timeout) {
YourFactory.getData({});
}
}
}
)
});
then create a Factory that will get the data you need
app.factory('YourFactory', ['$http', '$q',
function($http, $q) {
var url = '/api2.php/api';
var YourFactory = {};
var factory_data = [];
var messages = [];
YourFactory.getData = function(params) {
console.log("into GET data");
var deferred = $q.defer();
$http.get(url).success(function(response) {
angular.copy(factory_data, response.data);
deferred.resolve();
}).error(function(response) {
//couldn't resolve therefore it's rejected
deferred.reject();
});
//returns a promise that indicates that something is being resolved and will be returned for the app to continue
return deferred.promise;
};
YourFactory.data = function() {
return factory_data;
};
return YourFactory;
}
]);
then in your controller you need to input the factory and set the scope data from the Factory. Remember that Angular used the Factory to get data before the controller using the resolve property.
app.controller("AppCtrl", ['$scope','YourFactory',
function($scope, YourFactory) {
$scope.data = YourFactory.data();
});
(I haven't tested the code, I simply wrote an example based on an app that I'am doing and in which I passed through the same things as you)
Look at this links if you have any doubt.
https://egghead.io/lessons/angularjs-resolve
http://www.javierlerones.com/2013/07/preloading-data-using-deferred-promises-in-angular-js.html

Refused to execute script from '*' because its MIME type ('application/json') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled

I am a newbie to AngularJS. I am using a rails application to expose data in json format. The data is to be used by angular app. The angular repo and the rails repo are completely different. The reason for different repositories is because I want my rails repo just to expose data using APIs which i can use in the angular app.
My rails controller is as below
class Api::V1::PhonesController < ApplicationController
def index
render json: Phone.all
end
def show
render json: Phone.find(params[:id])
end
...
end
Now, when i visit 'localhost:3000/api/v1/phones', it returns me the json data for all the phones. When I visit 'localhost:3000/api/v1/phones/1', it returns the the json data for the phone with id 1. I validated the json data format using http://jsonlint.com/. Everything works fine till here.
My angularjs route file is as:
$routeProvider.
when('/phones', {
templateUrl: 'list.html',
controller: 'PhoneListController'
}).
when('/phones/:id', {
templateUrl: 'show.html',
controller: 'PhoneShowController'
}).
otherwise({
redirectTo: '/phones'
});
}]);
My index.html in the angular repo has the list.html template embedded in it.
<html ng-app='phoneCatApp'>
...
</html>
<script type="text/ng-template" id="list.html">
This is the list template.
</script>
the code for the services.js is as:
var appServices = angular.module('appServices', []);
phoneCatApp.factory('appServices', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q){
var url = "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/";
//get all phones
this.getPhones = function(){
var defered = $q.defer();
var listApi = url + "phones";
$http.jsonp(listApi).then(function(results){
defered.resolve(results);
}, function(error){
defered.reject(error);
});
return defered.promise;
}
return this;
}]);
The text in the script template is displayed as well when I visit '#/phones'. The problem is that
1) In chrome, following error is displayed when i inspect the page.
Refused to execute script from 'http://localhost:3000/api/v1/phones' because its MIME type ('application/json') is not executable, and strict MIME type checking is enabled.
2) in firefox, the following error is getting displayed.
SyntaxError: missing ; before statement
Thanks for the help.
Hey so I believe your problem is that your rails controller is returning JSON and NOT JSONP. Your controller has to explicitly specify a callback function, which can be specified by the request params.
See Handling jsonp in rails 3 controller for an example of returning JSONP from a rails controller
So your rails code would look like (argh my rails is very very rusty...):
class Api::V1::PhonesController < ApplicationController
def index
if params[:callback]
format.js { render :json => {:phones => Phone.all.to_json}, :callback => params[:callback] }
else
format.json { render json: {:phones => Phone.all.to_json}}
end
end
Then for the angular side, this answer should help you out:
parsing JSONP $http.jsonp() response in angular.js
And I think your angular would then look like:
var appServices = angular.module('appServices', []);
phoneCatApp.factory('appServices', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q){
var url = "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/";
//get all phones
this.getPhones = function(){
var defered = $q.defer();
var listApi = url + "phones?callback=JSON_CALLBACK";
$http.jsonp(listApi).then(function(results){
defered.resolve(results);
}, function(error){
defered.reject(error);
});
return defered.promise;
}
return this;
}]);

AngularJS Dynamic loading a controller

I read a lot about lazzy loading, but I am facing a problem when using $routeProvider.
My goal is to load a javascript file which contains a controller and add a route to this controller which has been loaded previously.
Content of my javascript file to load
angular.module('demoApp.modules').controller('MouseTestCtrlA', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
console.log("MouseTestCtrlA");
$scope.name = "MouseTestCtrlA";
}]);
This file is not included when angular bootstap is called. It means, I have to load the file and create a route to this controller.
First, I started writing a resolve function which has to load the Javascript file. But declaring my controller parameter in route declaration gave me an error :
'MouseTestCtrlA' is not a function, got undefined
Here is the call I am trying to set :
demoApp.routeProvider.when(module.action, {templateUrl: module.template, controller: module.controller, resolve : {deps: function() /*load JS file*/} });
From what I read, the controller parameter should be a registered controller
controller – {(string|function()=} – Controller fn that should be associated with newly created scope or the name of a registered controller if passed as a string.
So I write a factory which should be able to load my file and then (promise style!) I whould try to declare a new route.
It gave me something like below where dependencies is an array of javascript files' paths to load :
Usage
ScriptLoader.load(module.dependencies).then(function () {
demoApp.routeProvider.when(module.action, {templateUrl: 'my-template', controller: module.controller});
});
Script loader
angular.module('demoApp.services').factory('ScriptLoader', ['$q', '$rootScope', function ($q, $rootScope) {
return {
load: function (dependencies)
{
var deferred = $q.defer();
require(dependencies, function () {
$rootScope.$apply(function () {
deferred.resolve();
});
});
return deferred.promise;
}
}
}]);
Problem
I still have this javascript error "'MouseTestCtrlA' is not a function, got undefined" which means Angular could not resolved 'MouseTestCtrlA' as a registered controller.
Can anyone help me on this point please ?
Re-reading this article http://ify.io/lazy-loading-in-angularjs/ suggested to keep a $contentProvider instance inside Angular App.
I came up with this code in my app.js
demoApp.config(function ($controllerProvider) {
demoApp.controller = $controllerProvider.register;
});
It enables me to write my controller as expected in a external javascript file :
angular.module("demoApp").controller('MouseTestCtrlA', fn);
Hope this can help !

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