AngularJS - resource - doas a request have to be inside $scope.$apply?

Question

I could not find anything in the docs about this, but it seems that any request has to be inside a $apply() call - (wether this $apply() call comes from an action or is invoked manually).

I can not explain this strange behavior any other way:

// inside a controller
$scope.resources = Resource.query(); 
// a request gets sent

works just fine, but

// somewhere else - in a callback for auto-complete 
// just to show that this is outside $scope.$apply() - not realy setTimeout
setTimeout(function(){ 

  $scope.resources = Resource.query();

},100);
// no request gets sent;

});

Answer 1

I think you are looking at this issue: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/2371. You may want to follow up.