AngularJS: inject service into directive?

Question

I've been trying to integrate D3.js with Angular, and am following this tutorial: http://www.ng-newsletter.com/posts/d3-on-angular.html

The tutorial creates a d3 module which contains d3Service, and that gets injected into a directive. My app has a slightly different structure, but whenever I try to inject the d3 service, it shows up as undefined in my directive link function. I can inject the d3 service into my controller without issue. Here's what I'm doing:

app.js:

var sentimentApp = angular.module('sentimentApp', [
  'ngRoute',
  'ngSanitize',
  'sentimentAppServices',
  'sentimentAppDirectives',
  'sentimentAppControllers'
]);

Within services.js, I have several services, one of which is d3:

var sentimentAppServices = angular.module('sentimentAppServices', ['ngResource'])
// other services
.factory('d3', [function(){
  var d3;
  d3 = // d3 library code here
  return d3; 
}]);

Now in directives.js:

var sentimentAppDirectives = angular.module('sentimentAppDirectives', ['sentimentAppServices']);

sentimentAppDirectives.directive('lsPieChart', ['d3', function($compile, d3){
   return {
     // scope & template
     link: function($scope, elem, attr, ctrl) {
       console.log(d3); // undefined
     }
   }

Any tips? Thanks.

Answer 1

The problem is that your hinted dependencies don't match up to what you're actually passing in:

['$compile, d3', function($compile, d3

So, what you were doing is passing the d3 service as the variable $compile and not passing anything as the variable d3.

It might help you to understand what this is for. In non-minified code, you could take out that array wrapper altogether, like this:

app.directive('directiveName', function($compile, d3) {
  // ....
});

The point of passing the names as a string is because strings won't be affected by minification. This means that angular will know how to inject the right dependencies in a case like this:

 ['$compile, d3', function(a, b

a will be set to the $compile service and b to your d3 service.