Whats the better way to identify the context path in Angular JS
I have my web application deployed to tomcat with an applicatio context. For example my URL looks something like this.
http://localhost:8080/myapp
myapp - is the application context here.
Now in an Angular service if i want to call a webservice say getusers. My URL should be this /myapp/getusers. But I want to avoid hardcoding the application context as it might change from one deployment to other.
I have managed to figureout the contextpath from $window.location.pathname but it looks very stupid. Is there a betterway?
FYI I am using Spring MVC for restful services.
Answer
What I have done is declared a variable in the main jsp file. Then that variable will be available throughout the angular application.
<script type="text/javascript">
var _contextPath = "${pageContext.request.contextPath}";
</script>
This code should be written in header before including other JavaScript libraries.