How to close Angular-ui modal from other controller

Question

I am using Angular-ui to pop up a modal with a form in it. My code is:

app.controller('NewCaseModalCtrl', ['$http', '$scope','$modal', function ($http, $scope, $modal, $log) {

  $scope.items = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3'];
  $scope.open = function (size) {

    var modalInstance = $modal.open({
      templateUrl: 'modal-new-case.html',
      controller: 'ModalInstanceCtrl',
      size: size,
      resolve: {
        items: function () {
          return $scope.items;
        }
      }
    });

    modalInstance.result.then(function (selectedItem) {
      $scope.selected = selectedItem;
    }, function () {
    });
  };
}]);

And then I have another controller that is inside the modal-new-case.html template, and I want it to run an httpd request and then close that modal, here is that code:

    app.controller('CreateCaseFormCtrl', ['$http','$scope', function($http,$scope) {
    $scope.formData = {};
    $scope.processForm = function() {

        $http.post('http://api.com/proj', $scope.formData).
        success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            console.log("success " + data.id);
        }).
        error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
            console.log("Error " + status + data);
        });
    };

}]);

Okay so inside my modal-new-case.html template, which is loaded when I do:

ng-controller="NewCaseModalCtrl"

I have this HTML:

<div ng-controller="CreateCaseFormCtrl">
    <form ng-submit="processForm()">
                <button class="btn btn-primary" ng-click="processForm()" >OK</button>
                <button class="btn" ng-click="cancel()">Cancel</button>
    </form>
</div>

So if you see, what I really want to do is to run that processForm() function, and when it returns with a success, I want to THEN call the function that will close the modal, which I believe "cancel()" would be fine.

But I don't know how to refer to it from the CreateCaseFormCtrl controller.

I appreciate any thoughts and help, and I would like to add that I am very unsophisticated when it comes to Angular, so if this is complicated, please remember that maybe I am not 100% clear on what every single thing in Angular is such as the factories and such. I guess I'm saying I'm very happy with a dirty solution that's fairly simple, since this isn't going to be long-term production programming code.

Answer 1

Step 1: remove the

ng-controller="CreateCaseFormCtrl"

from

<div ng-controller="CreateCaseFormCtrl">
    <form ng-submit="processForm()">
                <button class="btn btn-primary" ng-click="processForm()" >OK</button>
                <button class="btn" ng-click="cancel()">Cancel</button>
    </form>
</div>

Step 2: Change

controller: 'ModalInstanceCtrl',   =>   controller: 'CreateCaseFormCtrl'

in

var modalInstance = $modal.open({
  templateUrl: 'modal-new-case.html',
  controller: 'CreateCaseFormCtrl', //Add here
  size: size,
  resolve: {
    items: function () {
      return $scope.items;
    }
  }
});

Step 3: In CreateCaseFormCtrl add a service called $modalInstance

app.controller('CreateCaseFormCtrl', ['$http','$scope', '$modalInstance', function($http,$scope, $modalInstance) {

Step 4: Add the close and ok functions

$scope.cancel = function () {
    $modalInstance.dismiss();
};

and $modalInstance.close(); in

$http.post('http://api.com/proj', $scope.formData).
    success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
        console.log("success " + data.id);
        $modalInstance.close(); //add here
    }).
    error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
        console.log("Error " + status + data);
    });