Cannot call method 'then' of undefined

Question

Why am I getting 'cannot call method 'then' of undefined':

http://plnkr.co/edit/yWS6hRjmZZeZMJyVA0zy?p=preview

Can you not resolve a promise inside the .then of another promise?

The code works fine if you take out the call to doSomething(), and it gets the suburbs, but as soon as you add the call to doSomething() it fails with that .then undefined error.

The call to doSomething also works if it's outside of the .then for the requests to get the suburbs, so that's why I'm lead to believe it's something to do with it being embedded.

Thank you

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– Ken White, Commented Jul 29, 2013 at 2:18

Rishabh Singhal · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-29 02:36:12Z

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I saw your plunk and there is a minor error. I am giving the corrected plunker. http://plnkr.co/edit/vRuA5Vy8sT6BhzsaYTkl?p=preview

doSomething : function() {
  //your method isn't returning anything
  return $http().then();
}

answered Jul 29, 2013 at 2:36

Rishabh Singhal

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2 Comments

Clark Pan Over a year ago

If your method does not return the promise generated by the then function, how can you controller code interact with the promise

andro1d Over a year ago

Yeah actually I was mistaken, the other service functions do return the promise. Looks like I missed the return statement.

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