I'm a bit lost... I'm quite new to Angular and writing a small app for practicing.
I've two views with a table and each view has it's own controller. The tables use some equal functions, like edit, save... To avoid duplicate code I've put these functions in a seperate controller. Now if in one view e.g. the data in a table-row is edited and saved I want to fire an event to inform the specific controller for that view and send the new object with that event. I already got that running but not sure if it is the right way to do it...
So right now my TableEditController is parent of each table-view-specific Controller and I can send the event with $emit. By doing some research I've read, that you should use a service for the communication, but in the examples $rootScope is used and I think that's not the right way to do it, as I only want to inform the specific controller about the change so that it can do further handling (like saving to database or whatever).
Any thoughts or ideas?
Put your business logic in a service and share the service with you controllers to avoid code duplication.
If you have the same controller methods as well (and a lot of them) , then create a parent controller (or inherit via prototype) with the same logic.