Whats the better way to identify the context path in Angular JS - angularjs

Question

I have my web application deployed to tomcat with an applicatio context.
For example my URL looks something like this.
http://localhost:8080/myapp
myapp - is the application context here.
Now in an Angular service if i want to call a webservice say getusers. My URL should be this /myapp/getusers. But I want to avoid hardcoding the application context as it might change from one deployment to other.
I have managed to figureout the contextpath from $window.location.pathname but it looks very stupid. Is there a betterway?
FYI I am using Spring MVC for restful services.

Answer 1

What I have done is declared a variable in the main jsp file. Then that variable will be available throughout the angular application.
<script type="text/javascript">
var _contextPath = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}";
</script>
This code should be written in header before including other JavaScript libraries.

Answer 2

I'm also using tomcat and Spring MVC. Using relative url in JavaScript will do the trick.
For doing this you just need to remove the / at the begining of REST url. so that your url starts from the current url in your browser.
replace $resource('/getusers') with $resource('getusers')

Answer 3

Inject the $location service to your controller.
var path = $location.path(); // will tell you the current path
path = path.substr(1).split('/'); // you still have to split to get the application context
// path() is also a setter
$location.path(path[0] + '/getusers');
// $location.path() === '/myapp/getusers'
// ------------------ \\
// Shorter way
$location.path($location.path() + '/getusers');
// $location.path() === '/myapp/getusers'

Answer 4

In Angular 2 (if using hashbang mode). Below code can be used to form the url.
document.location.href.substr(0, document.location.href.lastIndexOf("/#")) + "/getusers";
Inspired from the answer of #jarek-krochmalski

Answer 5

if you are using hashbang mode, with "#", you can do something like that:
$location.absUrl().substr(0, $location.absUrl().lastIndexOf("#")) + "/getusers"

Answer 6

For AngularJS $http service you are good to go with url : 'getusers', as follows:
$scope.postCall = function(obj) {
$http({
method : 'POST',
url : 'getusers',
dataType : 'json',
headers : {
'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
},
data : obj,
});
};

Answer 7

In general, you should use injection in your controller like the following:
angular.module("yourModule").controller("yourController", ["$scope", "yourService", "$location", function($scope, yourService, $location){
....
//here you can send the path value to your model.
yourService.setPath($location.path());
....
}]);