Looping through array of object data within Falcor - angularjs

Question

Let's say I have the following routes:
{
route: "usersById['length']",
get: function(pathSet) {}
},
{
route: "usersById[{integers:ids}]['firstName', 'lastName']",
get: function(pathSet) {}
}
With the following in my angular1 controller:
Model.get(
'usersById.length',
'usersById[0..2]['firstName', 'lastName']'
).then(function(response) {
$scope.$apply(function() {
vm.entities = response.json.usersById;
});
});
The response from the server is going to look something like:
{
jsonGraph: {
usersById: {
"0": {
firstName: 'Jiminy',
lastName: 'Cricket'
},
"1": {
firstName: 'Jafar',
lastName: 'Husain'
},
"length": 123123
}
}
}
In my angular 1 template, I want to loop through the list of users:
<tr ng-repeat="entity in users.entities">
<td>{{entity.firstName}} {{entity.lastName}}</td>
</tr>
The problem is that there aren't just users in the response, firstly it contains length and secondly it seems other meta data is returned by Model's promise, of which looks to be part of the path data: usersById
What is the preferred way of looping through the list of users? Should I doing something like this in my promise?
vm.entities = response.json.usersById.filter(function(value) {
return typeof value === 'object';
});
I'm not seeing any API call for fetching raw values anywhere.

Answer 1

Ok so it seems the correct way to handle this is to create another route: users which just returns usersById references, that way you have an array of just entities, not containing length etc.
I'm guessing having the path data in the array of data was just a bug.
{
users: {...},
usersById: {...}
}
<li ng-repeat="user in users">{{ user.firstName }}</li>