Why is this factory returning a $$state object instead of response.data?

What the $http service returns (and thus the objectArray service is) is called a promise. You can access the actual data by registering a callback function that will be called when the data is available, i.e. when the response to the http request comes back from the server:

objectArray.then(function(data) {
    $scope.array = data;
});

The reason you directly have access to the data when using resolve is that the router, when the resolve function returns a promise, waits for the promise to be resolved. And only then, it extracts the data from the promise and injects the data into the controller.

To better understand promises, you could read the following article (and its sequel).


As @JB Nizet noticed, you code is fine, just resolve it in controller Here's working demo

angular.module('app', []);
angular.module('app').factory('objectArray', ['$http', function($http) {
  // This is returning a $$state object
  // instead of response.data...
  ////// changed request type and url for the sake of example
  return $http.get('http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1')
.then(function(response) {
  console.log(response.data);
  return response.data;
});
}]);
angular.module('app').controller('applicationController', ['$scope', 'objectArray', function($scope, objectArray) { 
  //////resolve it here
  objectArray.then(function(successResponse){
    $scope.array = successResponse;
    console.log($scope.array);
  });
}]);
angular.bootstrap(document.body, ['app']);
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script>
<div ng-controller="applicationController">
  <h5>Hello {{array.title}}</h5>
</div>

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