I'm trying to get the response of a request using $resource, for example I have:

angular.module('app').factory('AuthResource', ['$resource', function($resource) {
    return {
        isAuthenticated : function() {
            return $resource('/api/v1/auth/authenticated').query();
        }
    }
}]);

Then in my controller I'm calling this service and doing:

console.log(AuthResource.isAuthenticated());

This doesn't return the actual result, which is simply a single object {'success' : 'true'}.

Instead it returns:

Resource {$resolved: false, $then: function, $get: function, $save: function, $query: function…}
$resolved: true
$then: function (callback, errback) {
success: false
__proto__: Resource

How do I go about getting the actual returned object? I'm not applying this to any models, just using the data to determine some routing.

Thank you!

I'm trying to get the response of a request using $resource, for example I have:

angular.module('app').factory('AuthResource', ['$resource', function($resource) {
    return {
        isAuthenticated : function() {
            return $resource('/api/v1/auth/authenticated').query();
        }
    }
}]);

Then in my controller I'm calling this service and doing:

console.log(AuthResource.isAuthenticated());

This doesn't return the actual result, which is simply a single object {'success' : 'true'}.

Instead it returns:

Resource {$resolved: false, $then: function, $get: function, $save: function, $query: function…}
$resolved: true
$then: function (callback, errback) {
success: false
__proto__: Resource

How do I go about getting the actual returned object? I'm not applying this to any models, just using the data to determine some routing.

Thank you!

• javascript
• angularjs

• check out [this answer][1] , it helped me out [1]: stackoverflow./a/16197255/1505895 – paynestrike Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 1:34

3 Answers 3

I set up a test like this:

var status = {};
$httpBackend.expectGET("/api/Accounts/AuthenticationStatus").respond(status);

Then I had an expectation:

expect(actual).toBe(status);

I was getting the following error:

Expected { $resolved : true, $then : Function } to be { }.

After scratching my head for a long time, I finally realized that the object returned by the get() function was never going to be exactly the same object I set up the $httpBackend service to respond with, but that it would return the base object { $resolved : ..., $then : ... } and, when resolved, add the additional fields included with my response object to that object.

Hope that makes better sense than the previous poster.

Just Modify you code as below

angular.module('app').factory('AuthResource', ['$resource', function($resource) {
    return {
        isAuthenticated : function() {
            return $resource('/api/v1/auth/authenticated')
        }
    }
}]);

--controller 
AuthResource.isAuthenticated().query(function(data){
console.log(data);
});

When the data is returned from the server then the object is an instance of the resource type and all of the non-GET methods are available with $ prefix

Can you base a solution on the answer here https://stackoverflow./a/11856710/1371408. Something like:

AuthResource.isAuthenticated(
    {}, // params (ie. none)
    function (data) { // success callback
        // do what you want with values returned from successful request, contained in 'data'
    },
    function (error) {
        console.log(error); // Error details
    }
);