Make jQuery Deferred / Promises and AngularJS $q Deferred / Promises compatible

Question

I have some old JavaScript libraries that use jQuery promises as return objects from function calls. I'm now using AngularJS which uses the $q service (inspired by the Q library). Does anybody have some generic JavaScript code to make these two different promise implementations compatible, so that jQuery promises can be used as if it where $q promises? Or something similar?

Answer 1

Third party promises can be wrapped with $q.when(thirdPartyPromise) to be converted into $q promises. When the thirdPartyPromise resolves, the $q promise resolves accordingly and $scope.$apply() is called.