$http and Streams?

Question

$http and Streams?

I want to read the App.net public stream. However when I use a simple $http.get() I only get one response.

$http
  .get('https://alpha-api.app.net/stream/0/posts/stream/global')
  .success(function (results) {
    console.log('received results', results);
  })
;

How do I connect to http streams in AngularJS?
Is there even a way or would I have to use something like WebSockets?

javascript
angularjs
app.net

Answer 1

$http is a single request only. For long polling, call it periodically with $interval.

function MyCtrl($scope, $timeout) {
  function poll() {
    $http.get('...').success(function(data) {
      $scope.posts = data;
    });
    $timeout(poll, 10000);
  }

  poll();
}

You could also create a service to encapsulate this logic, but you would need a fixed data structure to be updated, instead of changing the result. Something like this.