How to redirect to another domain from $http.post success callback?

[James Drinkard]

I'm using Angularjs 1.4.2 and I need to redirect to another URL after $http.post success callback.  I know I can use something like: $window.location.href = "http://google.com", but in this case

I think need to call a function in the service from the custom directive to get the URL dynamically.  

//custom directive

$scope.login = function () {

var loginResponse = {};

var errorMessage = "";

var access_token = "";

loginService.login(myInfo).then(function(response) {

console.log("response is: " + JSON.stringify(response));

if(response.data.token) {

$window.sessionStorage.setItem("token", response.data.token);

//Do I make the call from here?

$window.location.href = loginService.getURL();

}else{

errorMessage = response.data.errorMessage.split(":").pop();

console.log("errorMessage is: " + errorMessage);

... more code

So, is this a bad practice the way I'm trying to implement it?

Thank you,

James

[Sander Elias]

Hi James,

Well, it's definitively not a common thing to do. However, sometimes you need do to stuff like this. I know I have similar code, that deals with payment providers. If you are redirecting to another page in your own app, this is not the way to go. 

Regards

Sander

[James Drinkard]

Okay, well it seemed different to me, but it is in the requirement.

Thank you,

James