Angularjs ng-repeat Array vs Object - angularjs

Question

I am using ng-repeat to display data in a View coming from an endpoint in a form of atom feed. This endpoint returns JSON if Accept header is 'application/json', that JSON is created from XML on a server-side by an converter, unfortunately if there is one entry in the atom response then the entry in the JSON is not an array and ng-repeat does not work as expected. I had a project where I handled this manually by using a counter and then based on that counter and ng-show I either used ng-repeat or just displayed the single entry from the feed. How do I handle this correctly? Should I rework the incoming JSON on JS side? If yes could someone point me the right way of doing that.
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>/record</id>
<title type="text">Search feed</title>
<link href="/record" rel="self"/>
<link href="/record?page=2" rel="next"/>
<entry>
<id>recordid</id>
<link href="/record/id/recordid" rel="self"/>
<content type="recordcontenttype">
<record>...recordhere...</record>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
{
"feed": {
"entry":
{
"content": {
...recordhere...
},
"type": "recordcontenttype"
},
"id": "recordid",
"link": {
"href": "/record/id/recordid",
"rel": "self"
}
},
-- if there would be more entries then entry would be an array [ { xx }, { xx } ] and ng-repeat would work --
"id": "/record",
"link": [
{
"href": "/record",
"rel": "self"
},
{
"href": "/record?page=2",
"rel": "next"
}
],
"title": {
"content": "Search feed",
"type": "text"
}
}
}

Answer 1

I'd suggest a simple filter, e.g.:
(function (app, ng) {
'use strict';
app.controller('AppCtrl', function AppCtrl() {
var vm = this;
vm.foo = { id: 1 };
vm.bar = [{ id: 2 }, { id: 3 }];
});
app.filter('ensureArray', function () {
return function (input) {
return ng.isArray(input) ? input : [input];
};
})
}(angular.module('app', []), angular));
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.1/angular.min.js"></script>
<div data-ng-app="app" data-ng-controller="AppCtrl as app">
<div data-ng-repeat="foo in app.foo|ensureArray">
{{ foo|json }}
</div>
<div data-ng-repeat="bar in app.bar|ensureArray">
{{ bar|json }}
</div>
</div>