Angular execute XHR request without triggering a digest

Question

I have a scenario where I want to issue an XHR post to the server. I do not want to trigger a $rootScope.$digest() by doing so. I know I can manually create my own XMLHttpRequest to do this same thing, but I feel there should be a way to do this inside angularjs by default.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Answer 1

Check out $http:991 , the only way to get around it is turning on $rootScope.$$phase (a extremely fugly hack) , using an external library to accomplish it, or simply not caring about whether a request triggers a $digest cycle. The last one is what you should be gunning for.

Either use a external library , or get downright nasty .

$rootScope.$$phase = true;
$http.get('/foo').success(function () {
  $rootScope.$$phase = false;
});

Obviously not reccomended as lots of unexpected stuff might happen, so. Yeah, external library.

What you should really be doing is not considering getting around the whole point of Angular.js