How to call a controller function from a service? - angularjs

Question

i have 2 controllers who are not in the same scope or have a parent child relation.
So i want to call from controlleB a function in ControllerA. In my case its a listContoller with an addItem function and i want to call this function from a addItemController somewhere else on the page after clicking submit. i know this should work with a service, but i dont know how.
app.controller("listCtrl", ["$scope", "listSvc", function ($scope, listSvc){
$scope.list.data = listSvc.load("category");
$scope.addItem = function(newitem) {
$scope.list.data.unshift(newitem);
...
}
}]);
app.controller("addItemCrtl", ["$scope", "listSvc", function ($scope, listSvc){
$scope.addItem = function() {
listSvc.addItem($scope.newItem);
}
}]);
app.service('listSvc', function() {
return{
load: function(section){
...
},
addItem: function(item){
addItem(item); <<-- call function in listController
}
}
});
UPDATE
k is this better? i put the list.data inside my service and i watch from my controller if the list change and put it on the scope from my controller that ng-repeat can do his work... is this appraoch better? or have someone better tips for me how i should do this...
app.service('listSvc', ['$http', function($http) {
var list = {};
return {
list:{
get: function () {
return list.data;
},
set: function (data) {
list.data = data;
}
},
addItem: function(item){
var response = $http.post("/api/album/"+$scope.list.section, item);
response.success(function(){
list.data.unshift(item);
console.log("yeah success added item");
}).error(function(){
console.log("buuuh something went wrong");
});
return response;
},
load: function(section){
var response = $http.get("/api/album/"+section);
response.success(function(data){
list.set(data);
list.section = section;
console.log("yeah success loaded list");
}).error(function(){
console.log("buuuh something went wrong");
});
return response;
}
};
}]);
and in my controllers i do this
app.controller("listCrtl", ["$scope", "listSvc", function ($scope, listSvc){
listSvc.load("category");
...
$scope.$watch('listSvc.list.get()', function(data) {
$scope.list.data = data;
});
...
}]);
app.controller("addItemCrtl", ["$scope", "listSvc", function ($scope, listSvc){
...
$scope.addItem = function() {
listSvc.addItem($scope.newItem);
}
...
}]);
gregor ;)

Answer 1

I just solved this myself! Perhaps this may help:
The function inside of my Controller:
var timeoutMsg = function() {
vm.$parent.notification = false;
};
The function inside my Service (I had to pass in $timeout as well as the name of the function from my Controller, now it works):
// original broken code:
// this.modalSend = function(vm) {
// fixed:
this.modalSend = function(vm, $timeout, timeoutMsg) {
vm.$parent.sendTransaction = function() {
// Show notification
vm.$parent.message = 'Transaction sent!';
vm.$parent.notification = true;
$timeout(timeoutMsg, 4000);
// original broken code:
// $timeout(timeoutMsg(), 4000);
};
}
var vm = $scope