Promises are an abstraction over statements that allow us to express ourselves synchronously with asynchronous code. They represent a execution of a one time task.
They also provide exception handling, just like normal code, you can return from a promise or you can throw.
What you’d want in synchronous code is:
try{
try{
var res = $http.getSync("url");
res = someProcessingOf(res);
} catch (e) {
console.log("Got an error!",e);
throw e; // rethrow to not marked as handled
}
// do more stuff with res
} catch (e){
// handle errors in processing or in error.
}
The promisified version is very similar:
$http.get("url").
then(someProcessingOf).
catch(function(e){
console.log("got an error in initial processing",e);
throw e; // rethrow to not marked as handled,
// in $q it's better to `return $q.reject(e)` here
}).then(function(res){
// do more stuff
}).catch(function(e){
// handle errors in processing or in error.
});