Question

I found the following code snippet here:

App.factory('myHttp',['$http',function($http) {
  return function() {
    get: function(url, success, fail) {
      $http.get(url).success(function(response) {
        return response.data;
      }).error(fail);
    }
  };
}]);

I wonder what does this syntax mean:

function() {
  get: function(...) { ... }
}

Answer 1

It looks like it’s a typo. It’s definitely a syntax error. It resembles the ES5 getter notation, but even so, you can only use that with a property name, like get response() { ... }.

Perhaps what the author intended was:

App.factory('myHttp',['$http',function($http) {
  return {
    get: function(url, success, fail) {
      $http.get(url).success(function(response) {
        return response.data;
      }).error(fail);
    }
  };
}]);

which is not the ES5 getter notation, but a simple object with one property called get, referring to HTTP GET (as opposed to POST).