AngularJS App: Load data from JSON once and use it in several controllers

Question

I'm working on a mobile app using AngularJS as a framework, currently I have a structure similar to this:

app.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
        .when('/', {
            templateUrl : 'pages/home.html',
            controller  : 'homeCtrl'
        })

        .when('/one', {
            templateUrl : 'pages/one.html',
            controller  : 'oneCtrl'
        })

        .when('/two', {
            templateUrl : 'pages/two.html',
            controller  : 'twoCtrl'
        });
}]);

app.controller('homeCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {

}]);

app.controller('oneCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {

}]);

app.controller('twoCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {

}]);

And then I'm displaying the content with an ng-view:

<div class="ng-view></div>

Things are working well but I need to load data from a JSON file to populate all the content of the app. What I want is to make and an AJAX call only once and then pass the data through all my different controllers. In my first attempt, I thought to create a Service with an $http.get() inside of it and include that in every controller, but it does not work because it makes a different ajax request everytime I inject and use the service. Since I'm new using angular I'm wondering what is the best way or the more "angular way" to achieve this without messing it up.

Edit: I'm adding the code of the service, which is just a simple $http.get request:

app.service('Data', ['$http', function($http) {
    this.get = function() {
        $http.get('data.json')
        .success(function(result) {
            return result;
        })
    }
});

Answer 1

Try this to get JSON Data from a GET Link:

(function (app) {
    'use strict';

    app.factory('myService', MyService);

    MyService.$inject = ['$q', '$http'];

    function MyService($q, $http) {
        var data;

        var service = {
            getData: getData
        };

        return service;

        //////////////////////////////////////

        function getData(refresh) {
            if (refresh || !data) {
                return $http.get('your_source').then(function(data){
                    this.data = data;
                    return data;
                })
            }
            else {
                var deferrer = $q.defer();
                deferrer.resolve(data);
                return deferrer.promise;
            }
        }
    }

}(angular.module('app')));

Now you can add this dependency in your controller file and use:

myService.getData().then(function(data){
    //use data here 
}, function(err){
    //Handle error here
});

Answer 2

Initialize the promise once, and return a reference to it:

No need to initialize another promise. $http returns one.

Just tack a .then() call on your promise to modify the result

angular.module('app', [])
  .service('service', function($http){
    this.promise = null;
    function makeRequest() {
         return $http.get('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
             .then(function(resp){
                  return resp.data;
             });
    }
    this.getPromise = function(update){
      if (update || !this.promise) {
         this.promise = makeRequest();
      }
      return this.promise;      
    }
  })

Codepen example

Edit: you may consider using $http cache instead. It can achieve the same results. From the docs:

If multiple identical requests are made using the same cache, which is not yet populated, one request will be made to the server and remaining requests will return the same response.