The correct way to inject an angular controller dependency inside an angular.ui modal

Question

following angular.ui Modal example shows the modalInstance calling a ModalIntanceCtrl which is later created as a function:

var ModalDemoCtrl = function ($scope, $modal, $log) {

  $scope.items = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3'];

  $scope.open = function () {

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

    modalInstance.result.then(function (selectedItem) {
      $scope.selected = selectedItem;
    }, function () {
      $log.info('Modal dismissed at: ' + new Date());
    });
  };
};

var ModalInstanceCtrl = function ($scope, $modalInstance, items) {

  $scope.items = items;
  $scope.selected = {
    item: $scope.items[0]
  };

  $scope.ok = function () {
    $modalInstance.close($scope.selected.item);
  };

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

I have a 2 questions/problems:

1. the docs recommend creating a controller in another way (due to minification issues) for example:

   myApp.controller('GreetingCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) { $scope.greeting = 'Hola!'; }]);

But if I create the controller like this, how could I Inject it into the modalInstance?

1. The controller I call here isn't a Modal Instance controller but my global loginCtrl, is this a problem? should I subclass somehow the loginCtrl or call it from the ModalInstanceCtrl? and if so - how exactly?

I'll be glad for guidance and clarfication about this. Thanks!

Answer 1

You question is not very clear, but if you declare controller using the module API, then you can provide the controller to the modal service as a string

myApp.controller('ModalInstanceCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) { $scope.greeting = 'Hola!'; }]);

controller: 'ModalInstanceCtrl',

The same can be done for loginCtrl if you want to use that in the modal service.