AngularJS: Send $http.get requests continuously until certain condition

Question

As the title says, I want to send $http.get requests to the server until the returned results meets a condition.

This is what I tried:

    var searchComplete = false;
    var sendGetReq = true;

    while(!searchComplete) // #2 and then jumps here
    {
       if(sendGetReq)
       {
         sendGetReq = false;  // #1 execution reaches here
         $http.get('/user/getCondition', {params: {condition: $scope.condition}).
        success(function (condition, status, headers, config) {
         ...
         ...
         if(condition)
         { searchComplete = true; }
         else
         { sendGetReq = true; }
    }
}

However, the $http.get request never goes. That statement is never reached. When I debugged, I saw that execution will come to sendGetReq=false and then jump to while(!searchComplete). The GET request is never sent.

Would someone please explain:

1. Why the execution never reaches GET request and jumps back
2. What is the recommended way to to do this continuous GET request

Thank you.

Answer 1

Why not put it all together inside a function and call itself if condition is meet? Like this and you should use .then and not .success:

$scope.load = function(){
  $http.get('/user/getCondition', {params: {condition: $scope.condition}).
    then(function (condition, status, headers, config) {

    if (condition){
       $scope.load();
    }

  });
}

Hope it helps =)