Disambiguating when two modules define a controller with the same name?

[Josh Mandel]

Here's an example where a `myApp` module requires two submodules, each of which defines a controller called `MainController`:

http://jsfiddle.net/YS2BU/

Can my view explicitly specify which controller to use?  Or is the behavior fully determined by the order of dependencies at module registration:

myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['ngSanitize', 'realModule', 'fakeModule']);​

Thanks!

[Brendan Owen]

I have seen examples where the controller, service, etc have a name space defined by the module name. For example

fakeModule = angular.module('fakeModule', []);
realModule = angular.module('realModule', []);

realModule.controller("realModule.MainCtl", function($scope) {
    $scope.name = '<b>Real controller</b>';
});


fakeModule.controller("fakeModule.MainCtl", function($scope) {
    $scope.name = '<i>Fake controller</i>';
});

myApp = angular.module('myApp', ['ngSanitize', 'realModule', 'fakeModule']);​

<div ng-app="myApp" ng-controller="realModule.MainCtl">
   Text:  {{name}}<br><br>
   Safe Html:  <div ng-bind-html="name"></div>   
   Raw Html:  <div ng-bind-html-unsafe="name"></div>   
</div>

http://jsfiddle.net/brendanowen/UN6VF/1/

Regards

Brendan

[jma...@gmail.com]

Never allowing two modules to define a controller with the same name works fine as a convention  -- but are there other approaches?  (e.g. what if I'm re-using 3rd party modules that don't adopt this naming convention?)

[Marc Chung]

That's a good question. Maybe a naming convention could be applied.

Something like Java packages:

myApp = angular.module('com.marcchung.myApp', ['ngSanitize',
'realModule', 'fakeModule']);

Brings up another question:

Is there a story around 3rd party modules? Sharing? Project
conventions? Has anything like this surfaced yet?

- Marc

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