How To Avoid Repeating Http Requests Angularjs

Is there a way in Angular to avoid repeating http requests? As you can see in the code above I'm making a call to retrieve the detailed info of a product. The fact is that this ca

Solution 1:

Angular $http has a cache functionality built in, might be all you need

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http

$scope.seeInfo= function(id){

    $http.get('/shop/getDetailInfo/'+id, {cache: true}).
        success(function(data, status) {
            $scope.info = data.detailinfo;
            if (data.detailinfo>0) $scope.showDetails=true;
            else$scope.showDetails=false;
        });

};

update

I see you went for the "roll your own" solution instead, which generally is more bug prone than using what angular provides.

Here how to achieve the same:

// access the $http cache var httpCache = $cacheFactory('$http');
// retrieve an element from cachevar detailInfo = httpCache.get('/shop/getDetailInfo/' + id);
// delete a cache element
httpCache.remove('/shop/getDetailInfo/' + id);

Solution 2:

You can store every item that the user request in a factory and then check if the content is in the factory before do the ajax call.

$scope.seeInfo= function(id){
        var detailinfo = someFactory.get(id); //get item data from factory if existif (angular.isUndefined(detailinfo) || detailinfo === null) {
            $http.get('/shop/getDetailInfo/'+id).
                success(function(data, status) {
                    someFactory.set(id, data); //set ajax data to factory$scope.info = data.detailinfo;
                    if (data.detailinfo>0) $scope.showDetails=true;
                    else$scope.showDetails=false;
                });
            }
        } else {
            $scope.info = detailinfo;
            if (detailinfo>0) $scope.showDetails=true;
            else$scope.showDetails=false;
        }
    };

As well as someone said you can use the $http cache but i don't know how really it works

UPDATE

A someFactory example:

.factory('someFactory', [function() {

    var storedItems = [];

    return {
        get: function(id) {
            return storedItems[id];
        },
        set: function(id, data) {
            storedItems[id] = data;
        }
    };

}]);

test the factory:

someFactory.set(12345, {"info":"Hello"});
someFactory.set(2, "World");

console.log(someFactory.get(12345).info); // returns Hello
console.log(someFactory.get(2)); //returns World

You can store strings, objects....

Hope it helps you

UPDATE2 FULL EXAMPLE CODE

var someApp = angular.module("someApp", [])

.controller('someCtrl', ['someFactory', function(someFactory) {

  someFactory.set(12345, {"info":"Hello"});
  someFactory.set(2, "World");

  console.log(someFactory.get(12345).info); // returns Helloconsole.log(someFactory.get(2)); //returns World

}]).factory('someFactory', [function() {

    var storedItems = [];

    return {
        get: function(id) {
            return storedItems[id];
        },
        set: function(id, data) {
            storedItems[id] = data;
        }
    };

}]);

Solution 3:

Bind first call with scope variable.

$scope.wasCalled = false;
$scope.seeInfo= function(id){
    if ( $scope.wasCalled == false ) {
    $http.get('/shop/getDetailInfo/'+id).
        success(function(data, status) {
            $scope.info = data.detailinfo;
            $scope.wasCalled = true;
        });
    }
};

it's set on success so the server error code would be between 200 and 299. Then you can set ng-show in view basing on $scope.wasCalled variable.

---

Here is implementation taking into account different id calls.

$scope.callIds = [];
$scope.wasCalled = function(id){
for ( var k = 0 ; k < $scope.callIds.length ; k++ ) 
    if ( $scope.callIds[k] == id ) 
        returntrue;
returnfalse;
};
$scope.addCalled = function(id){
    $scope.callIds.push(id);
};
$scope.seeInfo= function(id){
    if ( $scope.wasCalled(id) == false ) {
    $http.get('/shop/getDetailInfo/'+id).
        success(function(data, status) {
            $scope.info = data.detailinfo;
            $scope.addCalled(id);
        });
    }
};

Checking if specified id was called, if not, call with $http and add id to list.