How to handle $resource service errors in AngularJS

Question

I am making requests to my API and I am using AngularJS $resource module. It's different from $http so I don't know how to handle my errors.

My service:

var appServices = angular.module('app.services', ['ngResource']);
appServices.factory('Category', ['$resource',
    function($resource){
        return $resource('/apicategoryerr/?format=:format', {}, {
            query: {
                method: 'GET', 
                params: { format: 'json'}, 
                isArray: true,

            }
        });
    }]);

My Controller:

...
Category.query(function(data) {
                console.log(data);
            });
...

I want something like this or .. I don't know a way to handle errors if my API is not working..

Category.query().success(function() {
                console.log('success');
            }).error(function() {
                console.log('error');
            });

Answer 1

you can pass the error handler as a second parameter toquery.

Category.query(function(data) {}, function() {});

EDIT:

to make things a bit clearer, some examples:

var Resource = $resource('/restapi/resource');

Resource.query(function(data) {
    // success handler
}, function(error) {
    // error handler
});

Resource.query({
    'query': 'thequery'
},function(data) {
    // success handler
}, function(error) {
    // error handler
});

Resource.query().$promise.then(function(data) {
    // success handler
}, function(error) {
    // error handler
});

Resource.query({
    'query': 'thequery'
}).$promise.then(function(data) {
    // success handler
}, function(error) {
    // error handler
});