I have the following code in my javascript controller. The functions work when called independently and asynchronously from the view. However I want to call them synchronously on page load as the returning value from the first function is used in the call for the second function

```
$scope.function1= function () {
    $http({
        url: '/Class/method1/',
        method: 'GET'
    }).success(function (data) {
        $scope.mygrid= data.data;
        $scope.myvalue= $scope.mygrid[0];
    });
};

$scope.function2= function () {
    $http({
        url: '/class/method2/',
        method: 'POST',
        params: { myValue: $scope.myvalue }
    }).success(function (data) {
        $scope.myValue2 = data.data;
    });
};

 var initialize = function () {
    var defer = $q.defer();
    defer.promise
        .then(function() {
           $scope.function1();
        })
        .then(function() {
           $scope.function2();
        })
defer.resolve();
  }; 
initialize();

```

On the second call $scope.myvalue is null. Data has been returned from function one so the only thing I can think of is that function2 is being called too early. Any pointers? :-)