ui-router resolving before a controller not working properly - angularjs

Question

My state definition looks like:
.state('repository', {
url: '/repository/:host/:owner/:repository',
views: {
appView: {
templateUrl: '/templates/app/repository.html'
},
'repositoryView#repository': {
templateUrl: '/templates/app/_repositoryAnalytics.html'
}
},
resolve: {
resolvedRepository: [
'$stateParams', 'RepositoryService', function($stateParams, RepositoryService) {
console.log(RepositoryService.find($stateParams.host, $stateParams.owner, $stateParams.repository));
return 1;
}
]
},
controller: 'AnalyticsController'
});
However, it hands and never gets to the AnalyticsController. If I remove the resolve, then it works just fine (except, of course, I don't have the resolved value).
I did return 1 for now just to see if it would return something without worrying about promises. I did the console.log to see if it hit, and it does not.

Answer 1

I created update of the prvious plunker here. All is working if all the parts are as well. Your resolve code is ok (it could really return just a value). The only thing different is:
The controller belongs to the view === { views : { viewName : { template, controller}}}
Controller should not (cannot) be defined at the state level. It simply is there to do the MVC stuff...
$stateProvider.state('repository', {
url: '/:host/:owner/:repository',
views: {
appView: {
template: '<div><h1>Repository</h1><div ui-view="repositoryView" ></div>',
controller: 'AnalyticsController', // here is new position
}
},
// removed from here
// controller: 'AnalyticsController',
resolve: {
resolvedRepository: [
'$stateParams', 'RepositoryService', function($stateParams, RepositoryService) {
console.log(RepositoryService.find($stateParams.host, $stateParams.owner, $stateParams.repository));
return 1;
}
]
},
Check it in action here

Answer 2

If you want to return a value for testing purposes, you need to do it in an object, see the first example here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki#resolve
resolve: {
resolvedRepository: [
'$stateParams',
'RepositoryService',
function($stateParams, RepositoryService) {
return {'value': 1};
}
]
}
If that won't work, try leaving out your RepositoryService to check if that's the problem:
resolve: {
resolvedRepository: [
'$stateParams',
function($stateParams) {
return {'value': 1};
}
]
}