reject ( service in module ng )

Creates a promise that is resolved as rejected with the specified reason . This api should be used to forward rejection in a chain of promises. If you are dealing with the last promise in a promise chain, you don't need to worry about it.

When comparing deferreds/promises to the familiar behavior of try/catch/throw, think of reject as the throw keyword in JavaScript. This also means that if you "catch" an error via a promise error callback and you want to forward the error to the promise derived from the current promise, you have to "rethrow" the error by returning a rejection constructed via reject .

  promiseB = promiseA.then(function(result) {
    // success: do something and resolve promiseB
    //          with the old or a new result
    return result;
  }, function(reason) {
    // error: handle the error if possible and
    //        resolve promiseB with newPromiseOrValue,
    //        otherwise forward the rejection to promiseB
    if (canHandle(reason)) {
     // handle the error and recover
     return newPromiseOrValue;
    }
    return $q.reject(reason);
  });