Question

I am trying to implement a custom API authentication method as suggested below.

Password protecting a REST service?

However, I am having some trouble with the authkey. I would like to save my authkey received as a global variable but I can’t seem to change it, it always become the same value as what it is defined to be at the start.

I am implement global variable using angular (v0.9) service.

snippet of my code

angular.service('Authkey', function(){
  return {
"authkey": "0000"
 };
});

controller

function LoginCtrl(Login_, Authkey_){
this.login = function(){
Login_.query({"Username": this.email,"Password": this.password}, function(response){
        if (response.success === "true") {
            Authkey_.authkey = response.AuthKey;
            console.log(Authkey_.authkey);
            window.location="/main.html";

        } 
    }); 
}
}

Yup. It always become 0000 after the page is changed.

Appreciate all help I can get. Thank you..

Answer 1

try this:

angular.service('Authkey', function(){
  var authkey = "000";
  return {
     getAuthKey: function(){
        return authkey;
     }, 
     setAuthKey: function(key){
        authkey = key;
     }
 };
});

//in controller:

Authkey_.setAuthKey(response.AuthKey);
consol.log(Authkey_.getAuthKey());

the difference here is that the AuthKey service has a closure on the key and you get/set that value.

in your code you always return the same thing. your setting of the key in the service has no effect on your return value