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Jonathan Fernandes
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Jonathan Fernandes
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Posted by Jonathan Fernandes
Jonathan Fernandes
Courses Plus Student 22,784 Points

Angularjs: How to store your AJAX result in a service so that you can access it through multiple controllers

I have an application which a customer model. Due to the nature of the application, I need to access that model through multiple controllers. I want the data referenced in the controllers to all point to the same thing.

My initial thought was simply creating a customer variable on the $rootscope and calling the $rootscope variable on whatever controller I needed it on by simply injecting the $rootscope. Everything online says using the $rootscope is like setting a global variable which I know can be bad.

So my question is: if it is bad to set such a variable that I will potentially be changing and messing with throughout my application, then how should I make an AJAX call, set that to a variable in a service and inject it in my controllers so that they all reference the same variable?