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| author | Misko Hevery | 2011-04-29 11:04:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Igor Minar | 2011-06-06 22:28:37 -0700 |
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-@ngdoc overview
-@name Tutorial: Step 5
-@description
-<table id="tutorial_nav">
-<tr>
- <td id="previous_step">{@link tutorial.step_4 Previous}</td>
- <td id="step_result">{@link http://angular.github.com/angular-phonecat/step-5/app Example}</td>
- <td id="tut_home">{@link tutorial Tutorial Home}</td>
-<td id="code_diff">{@link https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat/compare/step-4...step-5 Code
-Diff}</td>
- <td id="next_step">{@link tutorial.step_6 Next}</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-In this step, the View template remains the same but the Model and Controller change. We'll
-introduce the use of an angular {@link angular.service service}, which we will use to implement an
-`XMLHttpRequest` request to communicate with a server. Angular provides the built-in {@link
-angular.service.$xhr $xhr} service to make this easy.
-
-The addition of the `$xhr` service to our app gives us the opportunity to talk about {@link
-guide.di Dependency Injection} (DI). The use of DI is another cornerstone of the angular
-philosophy. DI helps make your web apps well structured, loosely coupled, and ultimately easier to
-test.
-
-__`app/js/controllers.js:`__
-<pre>
-/* App Controllers */
-
-function PhoneListCtrl($xhr) {
- var self = this;
-
- $xhr('GET', 'phones/phones.json', function(code, response) {
- self.phones = response;
- });
-
- self.orderProp = 'age';
-}
-
-//PhoneListCtrl.$inject = ['$xhr'];
-</pre>
-
-__`test/unit/controllerSpec.js`:__
-<pre>
-/* jasmine specs for controllers go here */
-describe('PhoneCat controllers', function() {
-
- describe('PhoneListCtrl', function(){
- var scope, $browser, ctrl;
-
- beforeEach(function() {
- scope = angular.scope();
- $browser = scope.$service('$browser');
-
- $browser.xhr.expectGET('phones/phones.json').respond([{name: 'Nexus S'},
- {name: 'Motorola DROID'}]);
- ctrl = scope.$new(PhoneListCtrl);
- });
-
-
- it('should create "phones" model with 2 phones fetched from xhr', function() {
- expect(ctrl.phones).toBeUndefined();
- $browser.xhr.flush();
-
- expect(ctrl.phones).toEqual([{name: 'Nexus S'},
- {name: 'Motorola DROID'}]);
- });
-
-
- it('should set the default value of orderProp model', function() {
- expect(ctrl.orderProp).toBe('age');
- });
- });
-});
-</pre>
-
-## Discussion:
-
-* __Services:__ {@link angular.service Services} are substitutable objects managed by angular's
-{@link guide.di DI subsystem}. Angular services simplify some of the standard operations common
-to web apps. Angular provides several built-in services (such as {@link angular.service.$xhr
-$xhr}). You can also create your own custom services.
-
-* __Dependency Injection:__ To use an angular service, you simply provide the name of the service
-as an argument to the controller's constructor function. The name of the argument is significant,
-because angular's {@link guide.di DI subsystem} recognizes the identity of a service by its name,
-and provides the name of the service to the controller during the controller's construction. The
-dependency injector also takes care of creating any transitive dependencies the service may have
-(services often depend upon other services).
-
- Note: if you minify the javascript code for this controller, all function arguments will be
- minified as well. This will result in the dependency injector not being able to identify
- services correctly. To overcome this issue, just assign an array with service identifier strings
- into the `$inject` property of the controller function.
-
-* __`$xhr`:__ We moved our data set out of the controller and into the file
-`app/phones/phones.json` (and added some more phones). We used the `$xhr` service to make a GET
-HTTP request to our web server, asking for `phone/phones.json` (the url is relative to our
-`index.html` file). The server responds with the contents of the json file, which serves as the
-source of our data. Keep in mind that the response might just as well have been dynamically
-generated by a sophisticated backend server. To our web server they both look the same, but using
-a real backend server to generate a response would make our tutorial unnecessarily complicated.
-
- Notice that the $xhr service takes a callback as the last parameter. This callback is used to
- process the response. In our case, we just assign the response to the current scope controlled
- by the controller, as a model called `phones`. Have you realized that we didn't even have to
- parse the response? Angular took care of that for us.
-
-* __Testing:__ The unit tests have been expanded. Because of the dependency injection business,
-we now need to create the controller the same way that angular does it behind the scenes. For this
-reason, we need to:
-
- * Create a root scope object by calling `angular.scope()`
-
- * Call `scope.$new(PhoneListCtrl)` to get angular to create the child scope associated with
- our controller.
-
- At the same time, we need to tell the testing harness that it should expect an incoming
- request from our controller. To do this we:
-
- * Use the `$service` method to retrieve the `$browser` service - this is a service that in
- angular represents various browser APIs. In tests, angular automatically uses a mock version
- of this service that allows you to write tests without having to deal with these native APIs
- and the global state associated with them.
-
- * We use the `$browser.expectGET` method to train the `$browser` object to expect an incoming
- http request and tell it what to respond with. Note that the responses are not returned before
- we call the `$browser.xhr.flush()` method.
-
- * We then make assertions to verify that the `phones` model doesn't exist on the scope, before
- the response is received.
-
- * We flush the xhr queue in the browser by calling `$browser.xhr.flush()`. This causes the
- callback we passed into the `$xhr` service to be executed with the trained response.
-
- * Finally, we make the assertions, verifying that the phone model now exists on the scope.
-
-<table id="tutorial_nav">
-<tr>
- <td id="previous_step">{@link tutorial.step_4 Previous}</td>
- <td id="step_result">{@link http://angular.github.com/angular-phonecat/step-5/app Example}</td>
- <td id="tut_home">{@link tutorial Tutorial Home}</td>
- <td id="code_diff">{@link https://github.com/angular/angular-phonecat/compare/step-4...step-5
- Code Diff}</td>
- <td id="next_step">{@link tutorial.step_6 Next}</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
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