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ng-table not being loaded appropriately when using angularAMD


I'm using angularAMD with requirejs and when I try to supply the ng-table module to the controller, I'm getting Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'module' of undefined from the ng-table module. The source of the error:

var app = angular.module('ngTable', []);

My code is:

'use strict';

requirejs.config({
  paths: {
    'angular': ['../lib/angularjs/angular'],
    'angular-route': ['../lib/angularjs/angular-route'],
    'angularAMD': ['../lib/angularAMD/angularAMD'],
    'ng-table': ['../lib/ng-table/ng-table']
  },
  shim: { 'angularAMD': ['angular'], 'angular-route': ['angular'], 'ng-table': ['angular']}
});


define(['angularAMD', 'angular-route'], function (angularAMD) {
    var app = angular.module("meadApp", ['ngRoute']);

    app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
        $routeProvider
            .when("/results", angularAMD.route({
                templateUrl: 'partials/results.html', controller: 'resultsController', controllerUrl: './controllers/resultsController'
            }))
            .otherwise({redirectTo: "/results"});
    });

    return angularAMD.bootstrap(app);
});

resultController.js

define(['app', 'ng-table'], function (app) {
    app.controller('resultsController', function ($scope, $http) {    
            $scope.users = [
                {name: "Moroni", age: 50},
                {name: "Tiancum", age: 43},
                {name: "Jacob", age: 27},
                {name: "Nephi", age: 29},
                {name: "Enos", age: 34}
            ];    
    });
});

results.html

<div>
    <table ng-table class="table">
        <tr ng-repeat="user in users">
            <td data-title="'Name'">{{user.name}}</td>
            <td data-title="'Age'">{{user.age}}</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</div>

Solution

  • Loading an existing angular module should be done using ngload. Add ngload to your main.js:

    requirejs.config({
      paths: {
        'ngload': ['../lib/angularAMD/ngload'],
        ...
      },
      shim: { 'ngload': ['angularAMD'], ...}
    });
    

    Then, use it to load the ng-table:

    define(['app', 'ngload!ng-table'], function (app) {
        app.controller('resultsController', function ($scope, $http) {    
                $scope.users = [
                    {name: "Moroni", age: 50},
                    {name: "Tiancum", age: 43},
                    {name: "Jacob", age: 27},
                    {name: "Nephi", age: 29},
                    {name: "Enos", age: 34}
                ];    
        });
    });
    

    Please see 3rd Party AngularJS Modules for more details.