Atmosphere and Angular JS how to - angularjs

Question

I'm an atmosphere & Angular newbie and I'm really struggling to find an answer to this! Maybe I'm asking the wrong question.
I am setting up notifications using Atmosphere. I can open the websocket and watch the updates happen if I post the API URL directly into my browser.
In Angular I have an ng-repeat loop, which I would like to run as each new update adds a new object to the websocket.
<li ng-repeat="notification in notifications track by $index">
I am using angular watch to check for updates, but it doesn't pick up the new objects being added to the array. Here is my code:
// notification alerts
$scope.notifications = [];
notificationsService.notificationAlerts().then(function success(response) {
var jsonStringArray = response.data.split('|');
$scope.notifications = $.map(jsonStringArray, function(n, i){
if (n !== ""){
return JSON.parse(n);
}
});
console.log('Connect', response);
});
$scope.$watch('notifications', function(newVal, oldVal){
console.log('Watch', $scope.notifications);
}, true);
Hopefully I've made myself clear, let me know if I need to elaborate, or if I'm asking the wrong question. Thanks!

Answer 1

OK, I managed to solve this, for anyone stumbling across it later. Here is the final JS:
// add number of notifications to ".notifications-number"
function updateNumberOfNotifications(){
var numberOfNotifications = $("ul.notifications-list li").not(".nocount").length;
if (numberOfNotifications < 1) {
$(".notifications-number, .notifications-list").addClass("hidden");
} else {
$(".notifications-number").html(numberOfNotifications);
$(".notifications-number, .notifications-list").removeClass("hidden");
}
}
// notification alert variables
$scope.notifications = [];
var socket = atmosphere;
var subSocket;
// subscribe
function subscribe() {
var request = {
url : "/service/notifier",
transport: 'long-polling'
};
request.onMessage = function (response) {
//console.log('response', response);
var jsonStringArray = response.responseBody.split('|');
// console.log('json string array', jsonStringArray);
$.each(jsonStringArray, function(index, elem){
if (elem != ""){
$scope.notifications.push(JSON.parse(elem));
console.log("object", JSON.parse(elem));
}
});
//$scope.notifications.push($scope.newNotification);
$scope.$apply();
updateNumberOfNotifications();
// console.log('$scope.notifications', $scope.notifications);
};
subSocket = socket.subscribe(request);
}
function unsubscribe(){
socket.unsubscribe();
}
// subscribe on load and update notifications
updateNumberOfNotifications();
subscribe();