Async load data into controller - angularjs

Question

I'm currently learning AngularJS and similar stuff, and today I've encountered a problem (probably with async).
What I'm trying to do, is to use an Angular factory to get some data from Firebase and then use the data in a controller.
App.factory('Jobs', ['$firebaseObject', function($firebaseObject) {
var ref = new Firebase('https://myapp.firebaseio.com/Jobs');
return $firebaseObject(ref);
}]);
App.controller('JobsController', ['$scope', 'Jobs', function($scope, Jobs) {
Jobs.$bindTo($scope, 'allJobs');
console.log($scope.allJobs);
}]);
This is working pretty OK. When I put {{ allJobs | json }} in a template- it is updated after few seconds. The problem is that in the controller $scope.allJobs is returning undefined (probably because the response from Firebase arrived later than the code has been executed.
My question is, how to write it, so I can access $scope.allJobs directly in the controller?

Answer 1

You could do something like this:
App.factory('Jobs', ["$firebaseObject",
function($firebaseObject) {
// create a reference to the Firebase where we will store our data
return function(url){
var ref = new Firebase(url);
// this uses AngularFire to create the synchronized array
return $firebaseObject(ref);
};
}
]);
Then in your controller:
App.controller('JobsController', ['$scope', 'Jobs', function($scope, Jobs) {
$scope.allJobs = Jobs('https://myapp.firebaseio.com/Jobs');
$scope.allJobs.$loaded().then();
}]);
This is showing the $loaded method as opposed to $bindTo. As the other answers/comments mention, $bindTo may be the better way to go.

Answer 2

Referencing to this Firebase documentation: https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/libraries/angular/api.html#angularfire-firebaseobject-bindtoscope-varname
I can just do it very very simple:
App.controller('JobsController', ['$scope', 'Jobs', function($scope, Jobs) {
Jobs.$bindTo($scope, 'allJobs').then(function() {
// now I have access to $scope.allJobs when everything is downloaded from Firebase
});
}]);