passing data from mvc controller to angular controller and scope

Question

Within a MVC controller I am trying to pass a collection of data back to the view.

private string GetEntityList()
        {
            var entities = new[]
            {
               new EntityList{ EntityId = 1, EntityName = "Entity 1"},
               new EntityList{ EntityId = 2, EntityName = "Entity 2"},
               new EntityList{ EntityId = 3, EntityName = "Entity 3"},
               new EntityList{ EntityId = 4, EntityName = "Entity 4"},
               new EntityList{ EntityId = 5, EntityName = "Entity 5"}
            };

            var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
            {
                ContractResolver = new CamelCasePropertyNamesContractResolver()
            };

            return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(entities, Formatting.None, settings);
        }

And I send it to the view via a string model

public ViewResult Index()
{
    return View("index","", GetEntityList());
}

Within my cshtml file I am trying to assign the model to a property called mvcData that a part of a service I define

    app.factory("searchAttributes", function() {
        console.log(@Html.Raw(Model));
        return { mvcData:@Html.Raw(Model) };

    });

</script>

This script tag resides inside of my ng-app so its in the scope of the app however when I try to reference if from app.controller it appears as undefined

app.controller('searchController', ['$scope', 'searchService', 'ngNotifier', '$log', '$timeout', 'searchAttributes', function ($scope, searchService, searchAttributes, ngNotifier, $log, $timeout) {

    var vm = this;
    //bootstraped data from MVC
    $scope.searchAttributes = searchAttributes.mvcData;

}]);

Looking at the model when it is returned to the html I can see that it is a valid object. Using console.log(@Html.Raw(Model) I see objects coming back

 Object[0] entityId: 1   entityName: "Entity 1"
 Object[1] entityId: 2   entityName: "Entity 2"

Any ideas why this object isn't being picked up in the controller? Even though I have it defined as a dependency it's as if the ng-controller doesn't detect it/load it.

thanks in advacnce

Answer 1

Your dependencies are out of order:

app.controller('searchController', ['$scope', 'searchService', 'ngNotifier', '$log', '$timeout', 'searchAttributes', function ($scope, searchService, searchAttributes, ngNotifier, $log, $timeout) {

should be

app.controller('searchController', ['$scope', 'searchService', 'ngNotifier', '$log', '$timeout', 'searchAttributes', function ($scope, searchService, ngNotifier, $log, $timeout, searchAttributes) {

Your current code would mean your searchAttributes.mvcData; is actually referencing timeout.mvcData which is undefined.