renaming service property $creation to $eager

see changelog diff for more info

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   not needed.
 
 ### Breaking changes
- - Support for 'eager-published' services was removed. This change was done to make explicit
+ - Support for `eager-published` services was removed. This change was done to make explicit
    dependency declaration always required in order to allow making relatively expensive services
    lazily initialized (e.g. $cookie, $location), as well as remove 'magic' and reduce unnecessary
    scope namespace pollution.
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
          this.$invalidWidgets = this.$inject('$invalidWidgets');
        }, {$creation: 'eager'});
 
+- In the light of the `eager-published` change, to complete the cleanup we renamed `$creation`
+  property of services to `eager` with its value being a boolean.
+  To transition, please rename all `$creation: 'eager'` declarations to `$eager: true`
 
 
 # <angular/> 0.9.8 astral-projection (2010-12-23) #

src/Injector.js

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ function createInjector(providerScope, providers, cache) {
    *   none:   same as object but use providerScope as place to publish.
    */
   return function inject(value, scope, args){
-    var returnValue, provider, creation;
+    var returnValue, provider;
     if (isString(value)) {
       if (!cache.hasOwnProperty(value)) {
         provider = providers[value];
@@ -55,13 +55,12 @@ function createInjector(providerScope, providers, cache) {
       returnValue = value.apply(scope, concat(returnValue, arguments, 2));
     } else if (isObject(value)) {
       foreach(providers, function(provider, name){
-        creation = provider.$creation;
+        if (provider.$eager)
-        if (creation == 'eager') {
           inject(name);
-        } else {
+
-          if (isDefined(creation))
+        if (provider.$creation)
-            throw "Unknown $creation value '" + creation + "' for service " + name;
+          throw new Error("Failed to register service '" + name +
-        }
+              "': $creation property is unsupported. Use $eager:true or see release notes.");
       });
     } else {
       returnValue = inject(providerScope);

src/services.js

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 var URL_MATCH = /^(file|ftp|http|https):\/\/(\w+:{0,1}\w*@)?([\w\.-]*)(:([0-9]+))?(\/[^\?#]*)?(\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?$/,
     HASH_MATCH = /^([^\?]*)?(\?([^\?]*))?$/,
     DEFAULT_PORTS = {'http': 80, 'https': 443, 'ftp':21},
-    EAGER = 'eager';
+    EAGER = true;
 
 function angularServiceInject(name, fn, inject, eager) {
-  angularService(name, fn, {$inject:inject, $creation:eager});
+  angularService(name, fn, {$inject:inject, $eager:eager});
 }
 
 /**

test/InjectorSpec.js

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ describe('injector', function(){
 
   it('should autostart eager services', function(){
     var log = '';
-    providers('eager', function(){log += 'eager;'; return 'foo'}, {$creation: 'eager'});
+    providers('eager', function(){log += 'eager;'; return 'foo'}, {$eager: true});
     inject();
     expect(log).toEqual('eager;');
     expect(inject('eager')).toBe('foo');