How to call a function of 1 controller in another in angular js

Question

I have a function in commonservice and i want to call the function by sending the type as argument from another controller and how can i do that,

commonservice :

function getCommonLookupData(type) {
 var data = angular.fromJson(EmployeeRoles.getItem('lookupData'));
 var arr = [];
 if (data)
 arr = data[type];
 var arr1 = [];
 if (arr) {
 $.each(arr, function (index, val) {
 arr1.push(val);
 });
 }
 return arr;
 }
 }

contrlrm :

commonService.getCommonLookupData(EmployeeRoles); 

and how can i get the arr of the function,can anyone help please.Thanks.

• Nadeem Khoury: i cannot understand, do you want to call service function from different controllers ?

Answer 1

You should inject the service in the controller like

 app.controller('MyController',function($scope,myServiceName){
 myServiceName.myServiceFunction();
 });