AngularJS - Changing the URL used in $resource.query method

Question

I'm using AngularJS to integrate with a REST service which has already been built.

The REST API uses the following form for queries:

http://the.site/person/search/smith%20male (this searches for people called smith who are male)

I'm aware that this form isn't the best and will be ultimately getting the API changed to use a URL parameter.

Currently I'm just defining a resource inside my controller:

$scope.Summary = $resource("http://the.site/person/search");
this.Summary.query({ terms : 'smith male' });

but that generates URL's of the form /person/Search?terms=smith%20male

Is there a way to modify or override the URL used? I'm more familiar with Backbone where I was able to provide a url() function in my which generated the correct form of URL.

I'm not sure I would put my resource constructor function in a $scope.property like that. That's not really what that's for. A view has no reason to access a resource constructor. — Ben Lesh
– Ben Lesh, Commented Jan 17, 2013 at 16:49

Tom · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-02 09:24:43Z

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$scope.Summary = $resource("http://the.site/person/search/:terms");
this.Summary.query({ terms : 'smith male' });

edited Mar 2, 2013 at 9:24

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