AngularJS ngTable doesn't work - angularjs

Question

I already used ngTable with static data before, it worked well (listing, sorting and filtering). I'm using ngTable v 0.8.3
My Goal
This time I want to create a ngTable with data loaded from a Web Service.
I made a custom factory to be able to create my ngTable with future others entities.
Issue
It doesn't work and I have no JS console errors. When I debug, I can clearly see that my method query from my service Employee return me my complete and correct objet containing employees details. I enter in the getData() function, the ngTable is being created, but with empty data.
Relevant and lightweighten code
Here is my HTML markup :
<table ng-table="tableParams" class="table table-striped" show-filter="true">
<tbody>
<tr ng-repeat="employee in $data">
<td data-title="'employee.firstname' | translate" filter="{'firstname' : 'text'}" sortable="'firstname'"><a ui-sref="employee.detail({id:employee.id})">{{employee.firstname}}</a></td>
<td data-title="'employee.lastname' | translate" filter="{lastname : 'text'}" sortable="'lastname'">{{employee.lastname}}</td>
<td data-title="'employee.mail' | translate" filter="{mail : 'text'}" sortable="'mail'">{{employee.mail}}</td>
<td data-title="'employee.phone-number' | translate" filter="{phone_number : 'text'}" sortable="'phone_number'">{{employee.phone_number}}</td>
<td data-title="'employee.birthdate' | translate" filter="{birthdate : 'text'}" sortable="'birthdate'">{{employee.birthdate}}</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
my Angular controller :
myapp.controller('EmployeeController', function ($rootScope, $scope, Employee, ngTableParams, ngTableFactory) {
$scope.tableParams = ngTableFactory.create(20, {lastname: 'asc'}); // count, sorting
});
And my Angular factory :
myapp.factory('ngTableFactory', function(ngTableParams, Employee) {
return {
create: function(count, sorting) {
return new ngTableParams({
page: 1, // initial page
count: count, // count per page
sorting: sorting // initial sorting
}, {
total: 0,
getData: function($defer, params) {
Employee.query({page: params.page(), size: params.count()}, function(result) {
$defer.resolve(result);
});
}
});
}
}
});
Edit 1, progresses :
My items are being listed if I remove params from my query method, so it was a bad handling of my Employee service. But, the sort and filter does not work on my table by default. to make sorting works, I have to add this line on my ngTable factory, in the getData() function :
result = $filter('orderBy')(result, params.orderBy());
Normally, the sorting of basic elements works as I added the 'sortable' keyword in my HTML ngtable template columns, and as I'm fetching my data over $data item. Still investigating.
Thanks for your help mates !

Answer 1

As far as I can see, your code works.
Please see https://github.com/masa67/NgTable for a working example (based on Node). I did not change anything (except filled-in the missing parts, maybe the problem is there).
The table formatting is not correct, but at least the data is coming in.