Hi There,

Our project is currently using angular_devise, and there are some code like these in our project:

Auth.currentUser().then(
  function(user){
    $rootScope.$broadcast(AUTH_EVENTS.loginSuccess);
 }, function(error){
    $rootScope.$broadcast(AUTH_EVENTS.loginFailed)
}).finally(function(){
    $rootScope.$broadcast(AUTH_EVENTS.loginCompleted)
})

However, we can't do that when server return 401 unauthorized error. Because the request will be handled by AuthInterceptor, and AuthInterceptor will return a promise that doesn't resolve/reject, and all following chained promises will be ignore.

Here is the code I am referring:
https://github.com/cloudspace/angular_devise/blob/master/src/401.js#L22

                if (intercept && response.status === 401) {
                    var deferred = $q.defer();
                    $rootScope.$broadcast('devise:unauthorized', response, deferred);
                    return deferred.promise;
                }

No sure if it is designed on purpose, but I think it would be made sense to reject the promise, so that we can have another option to handle the error instead of listen to 'devise:unauthorized' event