How to access Latitude and longitude geolocation using HTML5 outside of function

Question

Can anyone suggest how to access latitude and longitude we get from HTML5 geolocation outside of getCurrentPosition function? I don't want to show it on UI but need to send it to my spring controller. but can't access it outside the function.

Here is the code am referring too:

if (navigator.geolocation) {
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(showPosition);
    }

    function showPosition(position) {

        $scope.PostLoc = {latitude: null, longitude: null };

        var lat = position.coords.latitude;
        var longi = position.coords.longitude;

       // var result = [lat, longi]; // it's an array
       // return result;

    }

I want this lat and longi variable to be access outside showPosition function; but not successful, can anybody help, its already been few hours and am stucked. I want to send these to my controller and call google places api.

Thank you very much. please respond.

Answer 1

sets the value of an attribute class. thereafter any external class will be able to access this attribute. if you want you can also call a callback method to notify within another class that now has a variable value.