Nested ng-repeat on same element without flattening original data source - angularjs

I am using ng-repeat to generate table rows for the following object
$scope.things = [{
name: 'Bob',
otherThings: [{
foo: 'hello'
},{
foo: 'bye'
}]
},{
name: 'Sid',
otherThings: [{
foo: 'cake'
},{
foo: 'fish'
}]
}];
The ng-repeat expression I have gone with is:
<tbody ng-repeat="thing in things">
<tr ng-repeat="otherThing in thing.otherThings">
<td>{{thing.name}}</td>
<td>{{otherThing.foo}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
This generates multiple tbody elements, one per parent item in my object:
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Bob</td>
<td>hello</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Bob</td>
<td>bye</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Sid</td>
<td>cake</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sid</td>
<td>fish</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
I want to avoid multiple tbody elements, but I know in order to access both parent and child items, I will have to nest the ng-repeat's.
I could flatten the original object so that the parent information is duplicated for each child, but I want to avoid this if possible and use the data structure as is.
Are there any special uses of ng-repeat, e.g. multiple expressions that could be used on one ng-repeat to give access to both parent and child items in each iteration?
Thanks
UPDATE
The reason I want to avoid multiple tbody elements is because I have a css selector for alternate row shading:
tbody tr:nth-child(odd){
background-color: $theme-list-alt;
}
If each parent only had one child item they would all get coloured the same, whereas I want alternate row colours across throughout.
Update 2
I wondered whether using ng-repeat-start and ng-repeat-end could help me here, so I tried with the following Plunkr
This doesnt give me a row per child, e.g:
Bob hello
Bob bye
Sid cake
Sid fish
I can see why, just not sure how I can achieve this.

Try this.
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="thing in things">
<td>{{thing.name}}</td>
<td ng-repeat="otherThing in thing.otherThings">{{otherThing.foo}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

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Different row for each unit

I have a nested array list and I would like to get a different table row for every unit.
JSON:
[
{
"id":1,
"units":[
{
"id":1,
"name":"Test 1",
},
{
"id":2,
"name":"Test 2"
}
]
}
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I'm going to make an assumption that you want your DOM (including the <table>) to ideally look like this:
<table>
<tr>
<td><p>Test 1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>Test 2</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
The problem here is there isn't anything that represents the "users" part of that first ng-repeat (2 ng-repeats are needed for this data structure). As far as I'm aware it's not possible to start an ng-repeat without also creating a DOM element (at least a temporary one), so we can create some valid html (<caption>s in this case) and have angular exclude it using a one-time binding ng-if.
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<table>
<!-- The ng-if here will remove the <caption> from the end result. It's just a placeholder for the users repeater. -->
<caption ng-repeat-start="user in users" ng-if="::false"></caption>
<tr ng-repeat="unit in user.units">
<td><p>{{unit.name}}</p></td>
</tr>
<caption ng-repeat-end ng-if="::false"></caption>
</table>
</div>

How to display icons in a table depending on model in AngularJS?

I am new to AngularJS (and Javascript as well) and I try to display different icons in a table depending on a value in a field from my model.
Let's say this is my model:
$scope.MyList = [{ name: "Production", status: "Running"},
{ name: "Test", status: "Stopped"}];
This is a table for displaying the model in one of my views:
<table class="table table-striped">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Name</td>
<td>Status</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="item in MyList">
<td>{{instance.name}}</td>
<td>{{instance.status}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I would like to display the status using both one icon and the text. What is the recommended way of doing it? I would like to use something that feels natural with AngularJS.
Thank you.
The answer from dolgishev pointed me into the right direction.
I initialice my table elements like this:
<tr ng-repeat="item in itemList">
<td>{{item.name}}</td>
<td class="{{item.status}}">{{item.status}}</td>
</tr>
and then I use CSS for displaying the icon using a font from FontAwesome. This is for example the CSS for the state 'Running':
.Running:before {
font-family: 'FontAwesome';
font-size:1.3em;
color:green;
content: '\f00c'; /* the ok icon */
padding-right: 4px; /* plus 4px spacing */
}
This will display the ok icon in green, then 4 pixel padding and then the text for the state "Running". It is looking great!
For solve this you can use Angular's directive ng-class. It allows you to set class of element depend on expression.
Also you can do this without directive, in this way:
<div class="{{MyList.name}}">

turn off re-sorting in angularJS while editing

I have an AngularJS app that lists a bunch of items in a table. Like this:
<table class='unstyled tmain'>
<tr>
<td ng-click='setSort($event)'>X</td>
<td ng-click='setSort($event)'>Desc</td>
<td ng-click='setSort($event)'>created</td>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="item in items | orderBy:itemNormalizationFunction:sortReverse">
<td><input type='checkbox' ng-model='item.done'
ng-click='onCheckedChanged(item)'/></td>
<td><div edit-in-place="item.text"
on-save="updateItemText(value,previousValue,item)"></div></td>
<td><span class='foo'>{{item.created | dateFormatter}}</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
The table headers are clickable to set the sort order. The cell in the 2nd column in each data row is editable "in place" - if you click on the text it gets replaced with an input textbox, and the user can edit the text. I have a little directive enabling that. This all works.
The problem comes in while editing. Suppose I have it set to sort by "description" (the 2nd column). Then if I edit the description (via the edit-in-place directive), as I am typing in the input box, the sort order changes. If I change the first few characters, then angular re-sorts and the item is no longer under my cursor. Nor is it even focused. I have to go hunting through the list to find out where it got re-sorted to, then I can re-focus, and resume typing.
This is kinda lame.
What I'd like to do is tell angular to (a) stop re-sorting while I am keying in the input box, or (b) sort on a separate (not-displayed) index value that preserves the ordering before the edit began. But I don't know how to do either of those. Can anyone give me a hint?
I know this is sort of complicated so I'll try to put together a plunkr to show what's happening.
This is the plunkr that shows how I solved the problem.
http://embed.plnkr.co/eBbjOqNly2QFKkmz9EIh/preview
You can create custom filter and call that only when necessary. Example when you click on 'Grid header' for sorting or after dynamically adding/removing values to array, or simply click of a button(Refresh Grid)
You need to dependency Inject Angular filter and sort filter
angular
.module('MyModule')
.controller('MyController', ['filterFilter', '$filter', MyContFunc])
function ExpenseSubmitter(funcAngularFilter, funcAngularFilterOrderBy) {
oCont = this;
oCont.ArrayOfData = [{
name: 'RackBar',
age: 24
}, {
name: 'BamaO',
age: 48
}];
oCont.sortOnColumn = 'age';
oCont.orderBy = false;
var SearchObj = {
name: 'Bama'
};
oCont.RefreshGrid = function() {
oCont.ArrayOfData = funcAngularFilter(oCont.ArrayOfData, SearchObj);
oCont.ArrayOfData = funcAngularFilterOrderBy('orderBy')(oCont.ArrayOfData, oCont.sortOnColumn, oCont.orderBy);
}
}
and call in HTML something like:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th ng-click="oCont.sortOnColumn = 'age'; oCont.RefreshGrid()">Age</th>
<th ng-click="oCont.sortOnColumn = 'name'; oCont.RefreshGrid()">Name</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="val in oCont.ArrayOfData">
<td>{{val.age}}</td>
<td>{{val.name}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

How to use ng-repeat without an html element

I need to use ng-repeat (in AngularJS) to list all of the elements in an array.
The complication is that each element of the array will transform to either one, two or three rows of a table.
I cannot create valid html, if ng-repeat is used on an element, as no type of repeating element is allowed between <tbody> and <tr>.
For example, if I used ng-repeat on <span>, I would get:
<table>
<tbody>
<span>
<tr>...</tr>
</span>
<span>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
</span>
<span>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
</span>
</tbody>
</table>
Which is invalid html.
But what I need to be generated is:
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
<tr>...</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
where the first row has been generated by the first array element, the next three by the second and the fifth and sixth by the last array element.
How can I use ng-repeat in such a way that the html element to which it is bound 'disappears' during rendering?
Or is there another solution to this?
Clarification: The generated structure should look like below. Each array element can generate between 1-3 rows of the table. The answer should ideally support 0-n rows per array element.
<table>
<tbody>
<!-- array element 0 -->
<tr>
<td>One row item</td>
</tr>
<!-- array element 1 -->
<tr>
<td>Three row item</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Some product details</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Customer ratings</td>
</tr>
<!-- array element 2 -->
<tr>
<td>Two row item</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Full description</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
As of AngularJS 1.2 there's a directive called ng-repeat-start that does exactly what you ask for. See my answer in this question for a description of how to use it.
Update: If you are using Angular 1.2+, use ng-repeat-start. See #jmagnusson's answer.
Otherwise, how about putting the ng-repeat on tbody? (AFAIK, it is okay to have multiple <tbody>s in a single table.)
<tbody ng-repeat="row in array">
<tr ng-repeat="item in row">
<td>{{item}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
If you use ng > 1.2, here is an example of using ng-repeat-start/end without generating unnecessary tags:
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.23/angular.min.js"></script>
<script>
angular.module('mApp', []);
</script>
</head>
<body ng-app="mApp">
<table border="1" width="100%">
<tr ng-if="0" ng-repeat-start="elem in [{k: 'A', v: ['a1','a2']}, {k: 'B', v: ['b1']}, {k: 'C', v: ['c1','c2','c3']}]"></tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="{{elem.v.length}}">{{elem.k}}</td>
<td>{{elem.v[0]}}</td>
</tr>
<tr ng-repeat="v in elem.v" ng-if="!$first">
<td>{{v}}</td>
</tr>
<tr ng-if="0" ng-repeat-end></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The important point: for tags used for ng-repeat-start and ng-repeat-end set ng-if="0", to let not be inserted in the page. In this way the inner content will be handled exactly as it is in knockoutjs (using commands in <!--...-->), and there will be no garbage.
You might want to flatten the data within your controller:
function MyCtrl ($scope) {
$scope.myData = [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]];
$scope.flattened = function () {
var flat = [];
$scope.myData.forEach(function (item) {
flat.concat(item);
}
return flat;
}
}
And then in the HTML:
<table>
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="item in flattened()"><td>{{item}}</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
The above is correct but for a more general answer it is not enough. I needed to nest ng-repeat, but stay on the same html level, meaning write the elements in the same parent.
The tags array contain tag(s) that also have a tags array.
It is actually a tree.
[{ name:'name1', tags: [
{ name: 'name1_1', tags: []},
{ name: 'name1_2', tags: []}
]},
{ name:'name2', tags: [
{ name: 'name2_1', tags: []},
{ name: 'name2_2', tags: []}
]}
]
So here is what I eventually did.
<div ng-repeat-start="tag1 in tags" ng-if="false"></div>
{{tag1}},
<div ng-repeat-start="tag2 in tag1.tags" ng-if="false"></div>
{{tag2}},
<div ng-repeat-end ng-if="false"></div>
<div ng-repeat-end ng-if="false"></div>
Note the ng-if="false" that hides the start and end divs.
It should print
name1,name1_1,name1_2,name2,name2_1,name2_2,
I would like to just comment, but my reputation is still lacking. So i'm adding another solution which solves the problem as well. I would really like to refute the statement made by #bmoeskau that solving this problem requires a 'hacky at best' solution, and since this came up recently in a discussion even though this post is 2 years old, i'd like to add my own two cents:
As #btford has pointed out, you seem to be trying to turn a recursive structure into a list, so you should flatten that structure into a list first. His solution does that, but there is an opinion that calling the function inside the template is inelegant. if that is true (honestly, i dont know) wouldnt that just require executing the function in the controller rather than the directive?
either way, your html requires a list, so the scope that renders it should have that list to work with. you simply have to flatten the structure inside your controller. once you have a $scope.rows array, you can generate the table with a single, simple ng-repeat. No hacking, no inelegance, simply the way it was designed to work.
Angulars directives aren't lacking functionality. They simply force you to write valid html. A colleague of mine had a similar issue, citing #bmoeskau in support of criticism over angulars templating/rendering features. When looking at the exact problem, it turned out he simply wanted to generate an open-tag, then a close tag somewhere else, etc.. just like in the good old days when we would concat our html from strings.. right? no.
as for flattening the structure into a list, here's another solution:
// assume the following structure
var structure = [
{
name: 'item1', subitems: [
{
name: 'item2', subitems: [
],
}
],
}
];
var flattened = structure.reduce((function(prop,resultprop){
var f = function(p,c,i,a){
p.push(c[resultprop]);
if (c[prop] && c[prop].length > 0 )
p = c[prop].reduce(f,p);
return p;
}
return f;
})('subitems','name'),[]);
// flattened now is a list: ['item1', 'item2']
this will work for any tree-like structure that has sub items. If you want the whole item instead of a property, you can shorten the flattening function even more.
hope that helps.
for a solution that really works
html
<remove ng-repeat-start="itemGroup in Groups" ></remove>
html stuff in here including inner repeating loops if you want
<remove ng-repeat-end></remove>
add an angular.js directive
//remove directive
(function(){
var remove = function(){
return {
restrict: "E",
replace: true,
link: function(scope, element, attrs, controller){
element.replaceWith('<!--removed element-->');
}
};
};
var module = angular.module("app" );
module.directive('remove', [remove]);
}());
for a brief explanation,
ng-repeat binds itself to the <remove> element and loops as it should, and because we have used ng-repeat-start / ng-repeat-end it loops a block of html not just an element.
then the custom remove directive places the <remove> start and finish elements with <!--removed element-->
<table>
<tbody>
<tr><td>{{data[0].foo}}</td></tr>
<tr ng-repeat="d in data[1]"><td>{{d.bar}}</td></tr>
<tr ng-repeat="d in data[2]"><td>{{d.lol}}</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I think that this is valid :)

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