Angular-fat-model

Fat model is used to better coordinate models in application. Allows to aggregate then in groups in order to fetch only groups which are currently needed.

Getting Started

This plugin was tested on Angular in version 1.3.x, 1.4.x and 1.5.x

Instalation

bower install angular-fat-model --save-dev

Add lib into script

<script type="text/javascript" src="../bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>

(function () {
  "use strict";
 
  var app = angular.module('App', ['FatModelProvider']);
 
  app.run([
    '$FatModelProvider',
    '$timeout',
    '$q',
    '$http',
    function ($FatModelProvider, $timeout, $q, $http) {
      // Method just only for demo
      var fetch = function () {
        var defer = $q.defer();
 
        $http({
          method: 'GET',
          url: 'http://localhost',
          withCredentials: true
        }).success(function () {
          defer.resolve.apply(defer.resolve, arguments);
        }).error(function () {
          defer.reject.apply(defer.reject, arguments);
        });
 
        return defer.promise;
      };
 
      $FatModelProvider.register({
        name: 'model-1',
        promise: fetch,
        refresh: true,
        groups: ['group-1'],
        success: function () {
          console.log('success 1');
        },
        error: function () {
          console.log('error 1');
        }
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.register({
        name: 'model-2',
        promise: fetch,
        refresh: true,
        groups: ['group-1'],
        success: function () {
          console.log('success 1');
        },
        error: function () {
          console.log('error 1');
        }
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.register({
        name: 'model-3',
        promise: fetch,
        refresh: true,
        groups: ['other-group'],
        success: function () {
          console.log('success 1');
        },
        error: function () {
          console.log('error 1');
        }
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.$on('FatModel:fetch:started', function () {
        console.log('Started fetching');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.$on('FatModel:fetch:finished', function () {
        console.log('Finished fetching - Do something when all models have been fetched!');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.$on('FatModel:fetch:error', function ($event, error) {
        console.log('Fetching with errors', errors);
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.getModel('model-1').$on('FatModel:fetch:started', function () {
        console.log('Started fetching model-1');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.getModel('model-2').$on('FatModel:fetch:finished', function () {
        console.log('Finished fetching model-1');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.$on('FatModel:fetch:main:started', function () {
        console.log('Started fetching group main');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.$on('FatModel:fetch:main:finished', function () {
        console.log('Finished fetching group main');
      });
 
      $FatModelProvider.fetch().then(function (response) {
        console.log('All fetch response:', response);
      });
 
      // OR
 
      $FatModelProvider.fetchGroup(['other']).then(function (response) {
        console.log('Group fetch response:', response);
      });
 
      // OR
 
      $FatModelProvider.getModel('model-1').fetch().then(function (response) {
        console.log('Model-1 response:', response);
      });
  ]);
})();

Options

Release History

• 2016-01-14 v0.4.2 Fixed small bugs & fixed error handling.
• 2015-11-21 v0.4.1 Change response of fetch and fetchGroup methods.
• 2015-11-21 v0.4.0 Removed success and error callbacks. Returns promise on fetch and fetchGroup call.
• 2015-11-21 v0.3.0 Added success and error callbacks.
• 2015-11-21 v0.2.2 Updated bower and package files on new keywords.
• 2015-11-05 v0.2.1 Removed timeouts.
• 2015-10-30 v0.2.0 Triggers events for groups.
• 2015-09-28 v0.1.0 First version of plugin.

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