Cache Buster for Angular JS $http and $resource. Especially useful with Internet Explorer (IE8, IE9)

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Add this to your bower.json file.

{
  "dependencies": {
    "angular-cache-buster": "https://github.com/j-combee/angular-cache-buster.git#0.5.3"
  }
}

In your app module definition, add ngCacheBuster as a dependency

angular.module('myApp', ['ngCacheBuster']);

AngularCacheBuster adds a cache buster to any $http requests (and hence to $resource requests). Since you probably want to maintain browser caching for your views, partials or other routes, you can supply a list of regexes that will be matched against all URL's. By default the supplied matchlist is a whitelist (i.e. busting everything not matching an entry in the list) but you can also set it to be a blacklist, (i.e. busting everything except the matching entries)

For instance, if you want to bust everything except views in a 'partials' folder and images in a 'images' folder , you can configure AngularCacheBuster this way:

angular.module('yourApp', ['ngCacheBuster'])
  .config(['httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider', function(httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider){
    httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider.setMatchlist([/.*partials.*/,/.*images.*/]);
  }]);

If instead you want to allow everything to be cached, except your "/api/users" and "api/orders" (assuming they are the only things that change frequently), you can supply a matchlist as before, but pass in a second boolean argument "blacklist" set to true as well:

angular.module('yourApp', ['ngCacheBuster'])
  .config(['httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider', function(httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider){
    httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider.setMatchlist([/.*orders.*/,/.*users.*/],true);
  }]);

If you have a personal key that you want to append on the url you can set that key like this.

angular.module('yourApp', ['ngCacheBuster'])
  .config(['httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider', function(httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider){
    httpRequestInterceptorCacheBusterProvider.setMatchlist([/.*orders.*/,/.*users.*/],true).setCustomKey('YourOwnKey');
  }]);

This is used for versioning.

That's it! All your resource calls will have a cache buster added for anything not in the whitelist, or if you specified "blacklist", for everything matching the blacklist,

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