You can use shared service for that and broadcast any event through this service. Broadcasted event can be listened in any controller with $scope.$on.
For example:
angular.module("app", []).factory("sharedService", function($rootScope){
var mySharedService = {};
mySharedService.values = {};
mySharedService.personWasUpdated = function(){
$rootScope.$broadcast('update');
}
return mySharedService;
});
Ctrl for person editing.
app.controller('personEditController', ['$scope', 'sharedService', '$http', function ($scope, sharedService, $http) {
$scope.updatePerson = function(newPerson){
$http.post("../some URL/..", {person: newPerson})
.success(function(data){
sharedService.personWasUpdated(); //event broadcasing
})
};
}
Ctrl for displaying list of persons.
app.controller('personController', ['$scope', 'sharedService', '$http', function ($scope, sharedService, $http) {
var loadPersonsData = function(){
$http.get("../some URL/..").
.success(function(data){
$scope.persons = data;
})
};
loadPersonsData(); //first load
$scope.$on('update', function () {
loadPersonsData(); // load after update of any person
});
}