server side data in angular - angularjs

Question

I am trying to make GET request with node request module. I am making request to the coursera api. As the api is using CORS. Therefore I have to make server side requests.
But the thing is how to use this data in index.html to dynamically fill data.
As here I am getting the whole data to the file. Is there any way to give this data to the Angular controller.
In brief, I want to use data from coursera api inside my angular app. I have used client side so know less about server side.
var request = require("request");
var fs = require("fs");
request("https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1").pipe(fs.createWriteStream("data.json"));

Answer 1

There are two ways you can get the data into index.html:
1) Use Jade (Pug) Render:
var COURSERA_DATA = null;
router.get('/', function (req, res) {
if (!COURSERA_DATA) {
request("https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1",function(err,res,body) {
COURSERA_DATA = body; /* verify first */
res.render('index', {data: COURSERA_DATA});
});
} else {
res.render('index', {data: COURSERA_DATA});
}
});
and then in index.html:
script(text/javascript).
var theDATA = !{JSON.stringify(data)}; // inserted by jade
and finally in angular1
app.controller('AnyController',function() {
var vm = this;
vm.data = theDATA;
});
2) Client request to URL which is proxied to coursera's API
router.get('/coursera', function (req, res) {
request("https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1").pipe(res);
}
Aaron

Answer 2

Why the problem to consume data right in Angular? Something like:
app.controller('controller', function($scope, $http) {
$scope.getCursera = function() {
$http({
url: "https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1",
method: "GET",
contentType: "application/json"
}).success(function(data) {
$scope.jsonResponse = data;
}).error(function(err) {
console.log(err);
});
};
});
If Coursera allow Cross Domain this it's works. The JSON response will be setted at the scope, such that you be able to show in view or do anything.

Answer 3

You can try to implement a simple api to send the response back to your controller like this..
In the server side .. (Demo)
var request = require('request');
router.get('/coursera', function (req, res,next) {
request.get(
'https://api.coursera.org/api/courses.v1',
{ json: { key: 'value' } },
function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
res.send(body); //response from coursera
// if you are using this as middleware write next()
}else {
res.send(new Error("Error while connecting to coursera"));
// if you are using this as middleware write next(err)
}
);
}
And in the angular controller ..
app.controller('controller', function($scope, $http) {
$scope.getCoursera = function() {
$http({
url: "baseURL/coursera",
method: "GET",
}).success(function(data) {
$scope.data = data;
}).error(function(err) {
console.log(err);
});
};
});