AngularJS Service Passing Data Between Controllers - angularjs

Question

When using an AngularJS service to try and pass data between two controllers, my second controller always receives undefined when trying to access data from the service. I am guessing this is because the first service does a $window.location.href and I'm thinking this is clearing out the data in the service? Is there a way for me to change the URL to a new location and keep the data persisted in the service for the second controller? When I run the code below the alert in the second controller is always undefined.
app.js (Where Service is Defined)
var app = angular.module('SetTrackerApp', ['$strap.directives', 'ngCookies']);
app.config(function ($routeProvider)
{
$routeProvider
.when('/app', {templateUrl: 'partials/addset.html', controller:'SetController'})
.when('/profile', {templateUrl: 'partials/profile.html', controller:'ProfileController'})
.otherwise({templateUrl: '/partials/addset.html', controller:'SetController'});
});
app.factory('userService', function() {
var userData = [
{yearSetCount: 0}
];
return {
user:function() {
return userData;
},
setEmail: function(email) {
userData.email = email;
},
getEmail: function() {
return userData.email;
},
setSetCount: function(setCount) {
userData.yearSetCount = setCount;
},
getSetCount: function() {
return userData.yearSetCount;
}
};
});
logincontroller.js: (Controller 1 which sets value in service)
app.controller('LoginController', function ($scope, $http, $window, userService) {
$scope.login = function() {
$http({
method : 'POST',
url : '/login',
data : $scope.user
}).success(function (data) {
userService.setEmail("foobar");
$window.location.href = '/app'
}).error(function(data) {
$scope.login.error = true;
$scope.error = data;
});
}
});
appcontroller.js (Second controller trying to read value from service)
app.controller('AppController', function($scope, $http, userService) {
$scope.init = function() {
alert("In init userId: " userService.getEmail());
}
});

Answer 1

Define your service like this
app.service('userService', function() {
this.userData = {yearSetCount: 0};
this.user = function() {
return this.userData;
};
this.setEmail = function(email) {
this.userData.email = email;
};
this.getEmail = function() {
return this.userData.email;
};
this.setSetCount = function(setCount) {
this.userData.yearSetCount = setCount;
};
this.getSetCount = function() {
return this.userData.yearSetCount;
};
});
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