I've defined a module and made it the main module for my app using the ng-app directive. I added two controllers to the main app using angular.module('myApp').controller(). One of those controllers has page wide scope whereas the other controller is a child controller.
What I'm now trying to do is include a controller that belongs to another module (not the main myApp module), but I can't figure it out. I do not want to globally namespace controllers.
Anyone know how to do this?
Here is what I have so far:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" data-ng-app='myApp' data-ng-controller='myApp.mainController'>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled</title>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
var app, module;
//create two modules, one of which will be used for the app base
app = angular.module('myApp', []);
module = angular.module('otherModule', []);
//create main controller for main app
app.controller('myApp.mainController', function($scope) {
$scope.content = 'App main controller content';
});
//create child controller for main app
app.controller('myApp.subController', function($scope) {
$scope.content = 'App sub controller content';
});
//create a controller for the other module
module.controller('othermodule.controller', function($scope) {
$scope.content = 'Other module controller content';
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- output content from main controller from main module: myApp -->
{{content}}
<!-- specify use of main module's child controller and output its content -->
<div data-ng-controller='myApp.subController'>
{{content}}
</div>
<!-- NOT WORKING - ideally should output content from the other module's controller -->
<div data-ng-controller='othermodule.controller'>
{{content}}
</div>
<!-- load angular library -->
<script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
This code outputs the following with a JavaScript error essentially saying that the othermodule.controller controller was not found.
App main controller content
App sub controller content
{{content}}
Exact Error:
> Error: Argument 'othermodule.controller' is not a function, got
> undefined
> assertArg@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:1005
> assertArgFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:1016
> @http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:4740
> applyDirectivesToNode/nodeLinkFn/<@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:4322
> forEach@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:140
> nodeLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:4307
> compositeLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:3953
> compositeLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:3956
> nodeLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:4338
> compositeLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:3953
> publicLinkFn@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:3858
> bootstrap/</<@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:964
> Scope.prototype.$eval@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:7993
> Scope.prototype.$apply@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:8073
> bootstrap/<@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:962
> invoke@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:2843
> bootstrap@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:961
> angularInit@http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:936
> @http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js:14729
> b.Callbacks/c@http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js:3
> b.Callbacks/p.fireWith@http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js:3
> .ready@http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js:3
> H@http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js:3
>
> http://localhost/sandbox/angular/apptemplate/lib/angular/angular.js
> Line 5687
What you have done currently is "declared" two modules app
and module
.
When angular bootstraps, you have asked it to bootstrap with app
. So now your application bootstraps with app
but the app
has no reference to your other module ( which is module
! ).
So, you will have to either bootstrap your application with app
and specify a dependency on module
or bootstrap your application with a totally new module and specify a dependency on app
and module
.
This is how you define a dependency
angular.module('app',['module']);
If you want to create a totally new module and specify both as dependencies
angular.module('myApp',['app','module'])
Note : if you create a totally new module, you will have to bootstrap your angular application with this new module..
<html ng-app="myApp"...
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