Question

Explain $q Service, Deferred and Promises?

Answer 1

Promises are POST PROCESSING LOGICS which you want to execute after some operation / action is completed. While deferred helps to control how and when those promise logics will execute.

We can think about promises as WHAT we want to fire after an operation is completed while deferred controls WHEN and HOW those promises will execute.

For example, after an operation is complete, you want to a send a mail, log in to log file and so on. So these operations you will define using promise. And these promise logics will be controlled by deferred.

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So once some action completes, deferred gives a signal Resolve, Reject or Notify and depending on what kind of signal is sent, the appropriate promise logic chain fires.

$q is the angular service which provides promises and deferred functionality.

Using promises, deferred and q service is a 4 step process:

• Step 1: Get the q service injected from Angular.
• Step 2: Get deferred object from q service object.
• Step 3: Get Promise object from deferred object.
• Step 4: Add logics to the promise object.

Below is the Angular code for the above four steps.

C#

// Step 1 :- Get the "q" service
    function SomeClass($scope,$q) {

// Step 2 :- get deferred  from "q" service
        var defer = $q.defer();
// step 3:-  get promise  from defer
        var promise = defer.promise;
// step 4 :- add success and failure logics to promise object
promise.then(function () {
            alert("Logic1 success");
        }, function () {
            alert("Logic 1 failure");
        });

promise.then(function () {
            alert("Logic 2 success");
        }, function () {
            alert("Logic 2 failure");
        });
    }

So now depending on situations, you can signal your promise logics via deferred to either fire the success events or the failure events.

C#

// This will execute success logics of promise
defer.resolve();

C#

// This will execute failure logics of promise
defer.reject();