AngularJS: Factory is always undefined when injected in controller

Question

I am trying a simple example of an AddressBook Angular application. I have a factory that returns an array of records and it it gets displayed in a list view using a List controller

angular.module('abModule', ['ngRoute'])
.factory('AddressBook', function() {
    var address_book = [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "first_name": "John",
            "last_name": "Doe",
            "age": 29
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "first_name": "Anna",
            "last_name": " Smith",
            "age": 24
        },
        {
            "id": 3,
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "last_name": " Jones",
            "age": 39
        }
    ];
    alert('inside factory function');
    return {
        get: function() {
            return address_book
        }
    };
})
.config(function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
    .when('/', {
        controller:'list_controller',
        templateUrl:'list.html'
    })
    .when('/add', {
        controller:'add_controller',
        templateUrl:'add.html'
    })
    .otherwise({
        redirectTo:'/'
    });          
})
.controller('list_controller',['$scope', function ($scope, AddressBook) {
    $scope.address_book = AddressBook;
}])
.controller('add_controller',['$scope', function ($scope,AddressBook) {
    //$scope.entry = {};
    $scope.save = function() {
        AddressBook.set(
            {
                "id": $scope.address_book.length +1,
                "first_name":$scope.entry.firt_name,
                "last_name":$scope.entry.last_name,
                "age":$scope.entry.age
            }
        );
    };
}]);

Here 'AddressBook' is always undefined inside 'list_controller'. Any idea where I am going wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You are not annotating AddressBook for your DI

.controller('list_controller',['$scope', function ($scope, AddressBook) {
    $scope.address_book = AddressBook;
}])

should be:

.controller('list_controller',['$scope', 'AddressBook', function ($scope, AddressBook) {
    $scope.address_book = AddressBook;
}])

Same for the other controller.

Answer 2

Another approach is using $inject declaration of your dependencies , which are being used in the same order as arguments to your functionas show below . It helps in injecting the right services after the minification of the code.

var App = angular.module('myApp',[]);
App.controller('myCtrl',myCtrl);

//inject your dependencies;
myCtrl.$inject = ["$scope", "AddressBook","anotherService"] // 

function myCtrl($scope,AddressBook,anotherService){
.....
}

Note: Services names will be renamed after the minification and can indulge in breaking your application