a jquery.ajax based replacement for angular http layer

ajax.js

define(function () {
  return [
    '$rootScope', '$q', 'session',
    function ($rootScope, $q, session) {

      var ajax = function (options) {

        var deferred = $q.defer();
          
        var success = function (data, status, xhr) {
          $rootScope.$apply(function () { deferred.resolve({ data: data, status: status, xhr: xhr }); });
        };

        var error = function (xhr) {
          var data = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
          var status = xhr.status;

          console.log(status, data);

          if(status === 401 || status === 403) {
            $rootScope.$broadcast('auth-failed')
          }

          $rootScope.$apply(function () { deferred.reject({status: status, data: data, xhr: xhr}); });
        }

        options.data = options.data || {};
        options.type = options.type || 'GET';
        options.dataType = options.dataType || 'json';
        
        options.beforeSend = function (xhr) {
          xhr.setRequestHeader(session.keyName(), session.key());
        };

        jQuery.ajax(options).done(success).fail(error);

        return deferred.promise
        
      };

      var methods = ['get', 'put', 'post', 'delete'], l = methods.length, i = 0;

      for(;i<l;i++) {
        var m = methods[i];
        (function (m) {
          ajax[m] = function (options) {
            options.type = m.toUpperCase()
            return ajax(options).then(function (res) { return res.data; });
          }
        })(m);
        
      }

      return ajax;
    }
  ]
})