Injecting Dependencies in config() modules - AngularJS

Solution 1:

1. angular.config only accepts Providers
2. every service, factory etc are instances of Provider

So to inject a service in config you just need to call the Provider of the service by adding 'Provider' to it's name.

angular.module('myApp')
  .service('FooService', function(){
    //...etc
  })
  .config(function(FooServiceProvider){
    //...etc
  });

According to the angularjs Provider documentation

... if you define a Factory recipe, an empty Provider type with the $get method set to your factory function is automatically created under the hood.

So if you have a factory (or service) such as:

.factory('myConfig', function(){
  return {
    hello: function(msg){
      console.log('hello ' + msg)
    }
  }
})

You first need to invoke your factory using the $get method before accessing the returned object:

.config(function(myConfigProvider){
   myConfigProvider
     .$get()
     .hello('world');
});

Solution 2:

In .config you can only use providers (e.g. $routeProvider). in .run you can only use instances of services (e.g. $route). You have a factory, not a provider. See this snippet with the three ways of creating this: Service, Factory and Provider They also mention this in the angular docs https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/services

Solution 3:

You should use constant for that, because it's the only thing you can inject in the config phase other than providers.

angular.module("yourModule").constant("paths", {
  base: function(){ ... }
});

Solution 4:

This discussion helped me when I was trying to figure out the same thing, basically

$routeProvider.when('/', {
                templateUrl:'views/main.html',
                controller:'MainController',
                resolve: {
                    recentPosts: ['$q', 'backendService', function($q, backendService){
                        var deferred = $q.defer();
                        backendService.getRecentPosts().then(
                            function(data) {
                                var result = data.result;
                                deferred.resolve(result);
                            },
                            function(error) {
                                deferred.reject(error);
                            }
                        );
                        return deferred.promise;
                    }]
                }
            })