Whats the better way to identify the context path in Angular JS

Question

I have my web application deployed to tomcat with an applicatio context. For example my URL looks something like this.

http://localhost:8080/myapp

myapp - is the application context here.

Now in an Angular service if i want to call a webservice say getusers. My URL should be this /myapp/getusers. But I want to avoid hardcoding the application context as it might change from one deployment to other. I have managed to figureout the contextpath from $window.location.pathname but it looks very stupid. Is there a betterway?

FYI I am using Spring MVC for restful services.

Answer 1

I'm also using tomcat and Spring MVC. Using relative url in JavaScript will do the trick.

For doing this you just need to remove the / at the begining of REST url. so that your url starts from the current url in your browser.

replace $resource('/getusers') with $resource('getusers')

Answer 2

For AngularJS $http service you are good to go with url : 'getusers', as follows:

$scope.postCall = function(obj) {
            $http({
                method : 'POST',
                url : 'getusers',
                dataType : 'json',
                headers : {
                    'Content-Type' : 'application/json'
                },
                data : obj,
            });
};