How to pass content from service to another service to controller with callbacks after it has been parsed?

Question

I have a service that uses a callback function to pass content to a controller:

  angular.module(\'piApp\').service(\"dataRetrievalService\", function () {

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Answer 1

This is good idea to separate loading and parsing routines. However, instead of callback it's more convenient to use promises. This is how services could look like in this case:

angular.module('piApp').service("csvService", function($q) {

    // public methods
    function getCsvAsJSON() {
        var deferred = $q.defer();
        var fs = require("fs");
        var Converter = require("csvtojson").Converter;
        var fileStream = fs.createReadStream("Contents/Product Groups/orderTest2.csv");
        var converter = new Converter({constructResult: true});
        converter.on("end_parsed", function(jsonObj) {
            deferred.resolve(jsonObj);
        });
        fileStream.pipe(converter);
        return deferred.promise;
    }

    return {
        getCsvAsJSON: getCsvAsJSON
    }
});

angular.module('piApp').service("dataRetrievalService", ['csvService', function(csvService) {

    function getContents() {
        return csvService.getCsvAsJSON();
    }

    return {
        getContents: getContents
    }
}]);

angular.module('piApp').controller('homeController', ['$scope', 'dataRetrievalService', function ($scope, dataRetrievalService) {

    dataRetrievalService.getContents().then(function(contents) {
        $scope.result = contents;
    });

}]);