how do I dispose a factory/service?

[Amitava Saha]

http://plnkr.co/edit/Npzcmsp05rgBcxciwQ6P

Scenario: I have a factory which I use to share data between multiple controllers. In the plnkr, the demo page has two controller and a service is injected in both the controller to share data and do common tasks. Now when I navigate away from demo page to another page and come back, the service still holds old data. I want to dispose the service when I leave the page and get a new copy when I come back. What would be the ideal way to achieve this?

Thanks,

Amit

[Pawel Kozlowski]

Hi!

You can't dispose and re-create a service (or factory) - those are
singletons that are created on app's bootstrap.
What you can do, though is to expose a method to clean up your data.
You could call this method by reacting on the $routeChangeSuccess
event, for example.

Hope this helps,
Pawel

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[Amitava Saha]

Thanks Pawel! I was thinking along the same line about the method expose but was not sure if it is the right way to do.