Learning AngularJS

Service Providers

The service providers are a unique category of providers because there is not already a specific format for the resulting provider objects. Instead, a provider acts as a service to provide functionality. AngularJS provides some specific creation methods for building services and exposes them through the following methods:

■ value(name, object): This is the most basic of all providers. The object parameter is simply assigned to name, so there is a direct correlation in the injector between the name value and the object value.

■ constant(name, object): This is similar to the value() method, but the value is not changeable. Also, constant() methods are applied before other provider methods.

■ factory(name, factoryFunction): This ...