While using AngularJS, we come across some situation in which we need to copy one object to another object. In that case, we probably have two solutions: angular.copy() or angular.extend(). Lets see how they work differently.

1. angular.copy(source, destination) : It creates a deep copy of source object or array and assign it to destination where ‘destination’ is optional. By writing deep copy, we mean that a new copy of the referred object is made. For example:

var mySource = {'name' : 'sakshi', 'age' : '24', 'obj' :{'key':'value'}}

var myDest = {}

angular.copy(mySource, myDest);

console.log(myDest);

Output: {'name' : 'sakshi', 'age' : '24', 'obj' :{'key':'value'}}

If we check mySource.obj === myDest.obj , this will give false because both point to different objects. This is called as deep copying.

2. angular.extend(destination, src1, src2 …) : It creates a shallow copy of one or more sources provided and assign them to destination. For example:

var mySource1 = {'name' : 'neha', 'age' : '26', obj2 : {}}

var mySource2 = {'course' : 'MCA'}

var myDest = {}

angular.extend(myDest, mySource1,mySource2)

console.log(myDest);

Output: {name: "neha", age: "26", course: "MCA", obj2: Object}

Now we check mySource1.obj2 === myDest.obj2 , this will give true because both point to same reference of object. This is called as shallow copying.

NOTE : angular.copy() is slower than angular.extend()

来源：http://www.tuicool.com/articles/En6Jve

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可参考：

http://docs.angularjs.cn/api/ng/function/angular.copy

http://docs.angularjs.cn/api/ng/function/angular.extend

http://www.cnblogs.com/xing901022/p/4934329.html

http://www.tuicool.com/articles/vM7r6v