Filling an array with json in AngularJS service

Question

In my angularjs service I want an array to be filled as follows:

var results = [
  {id: 1, name: 'John'},
  {id: 2, name: 'Jane}
]

I want to do this by calling an API. So far I have written this:

function getDataFromAPI() {
  $http.get('foo.com/bar.json').then(function(data){
    console.log( data.data.employees);
  });
}

var results = getDataFromAPI();

When I call results, in my chrome dev tools it will display the results from the json file, but I don't know how to populate the results array.

How can I fill the array?

Jorg · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-16 09:39:41Z

1

$http.get (and many other functions in Angular) returns a promise.

var results;
function getDataFromAPI() {
    return $http.get('foo.com/bar.json');
}

getDAtaFromAPI().then(function(data) {
    results = data;
});

answered Sep 16, 2015 at 9:39

Jorg

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