Processing $http response in service

Question

I recently posted a detailed description of the issue I am facing here at SO. As I couldn\'t send an actual $http request, I used timeout to simulate asynchrono

Answer 1

A much better way I think would be something like this:

Service:

app.service('FruitsManager',function($q){

    function getAllFruits(){
        var deferred = $q.defer();

        ...

        // somewhere here use: deferred.resolve(awesomeFruits);

        ...

        return deferred.promise;
    }

    return{
        getAllFruits:getAllFruits
    }

});

And in the controller you can simply use:

$scope.fruits = FruitsManager.getAllFruits();

Angular will automatically put the resolved awesomeFruits into the $scope.fruits.