iterating inside a $http.get - angularjs

Question

I've this block of code which displays 20 items per request.
.controller('ActorController',function($scope,$http) {
$scope.getActors = function () {
var actors = $http.get(https://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/popular&page=1);
actors.then(
function (response) {
$scope.actors = response.data.results;
}
);
}
})
Instead of page=1, if i put page=2, I'll get another set of 20 items and so on. How to iterate inside the $http.get if I want more than 1 get request in a single page? I want to display the 2nd 20 items after displaying the 1st 20.

Answer 1

So you're saying that you want to make multiple calls to $http.get in a loop? If so you'd do something like this:
.controller('ActorController',function($scope,$http) {
$scope.getActors = function () {
for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
getPage(i);
}
}
function getPage(i) {
var actors = $http.get('https://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/popular&page=' + i);
actors.then(function (response) {
for(var j = 0; j < response.data.results.length; j++) {
$scope.actors.push(response.data.results[j]);
}
});
}
})
That will put the data for the first 5 pages into the $scope.actors array.

Answer 2

you can use $q.all to send multiple http requests at once
var fulAr = [];
for (var i = 1; i <= 2; i++) {
fulAr.push($http.get("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/popular&page=" + i))
}
$q.all(fulAr).then(function(response) {
console.log(response[0].data) //page 1 content
console.log(response[1].data) //page 2 content
for(var j = 0; j < response.length; j++) {
$scope.actors = $scope.actors.concat(response[j].data.results);
}
})
Make sure to inject $q to controller