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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints A practical guide to developing powerful web applications with AngularJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285617
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinci J Rufus Vinci J Rufus
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Preface 1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Rig 3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS 4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App 5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App 6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App 7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack 8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS 9. Building an E-Commerce Store A. AngularJS Resources Index

Setting up an Interceptor to detect responses


A use case that we need to consider is what happens if the backend web service's session timed out and somebody from the frontend is trying to add, edit, or delete a page.

At the instance when the backend service times out, it would return a 401 status code; we would need to have every AngularJS controller check for this status code and redirect the user to the login page in case it gets one.

Instead of writing this check on each and every controller, we will make use of an Interceptor to check every incoming response, and act accordingly.

Let's chain our Interceptor service in our services.js file as follows:

.factory('myHttpInterceptor', ['$q', '$location', function($q, $location) {
    return {
        response: function(response) {
            return response;
        },
        responseError: function(response) {
            if (response.status === 401) {
                $location.path('/admin/login');
                return $q.reject(response...
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