Angular HttpPromise: difference between `success`/`error` methods and `then`’s arguments

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There are some good answers here already. But it’s worthwhile to drive home the difference in parallelism offered:

  • success() returns the original promise
  • then() returns a new promise

The difference is then() drives sequential operations, since each call returns a new promise.

$http.get(/*...*/).
  then(function seqFunc1(response){/*...*/}).
  then(function seqFunc2(response){/*...*/})
  1. $http.get()
  2. seqFunc1()
  3. seqFunc2()

success() drives parallel operations, since handlers are chained on the same promise.

$http(/*...*/).
  success(function parFunc1(data){/*...*/}).
  success(function parFunc2(data){/*...*/})
  1. $http.get()
  2. parFunc1(), parFunc2() in parallel

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