How to bind ng-model to ng-checked boxes - angularjs

Question

I am having a problem binding Angular ng-check to ng-model, that is ng-model does do not recognize the selected state of my check boxes.
Here is a description(Its a much larger code base but I have tailored to minimize code).
On page load in JavaScript I initialize my products and set the default values:
$scope.products = {}
$scope.SetProductsData = function() {
var allProducts;
allProducts = [
{
id: 1,
name: "Book",
selected: true
}, {
id: 2,
name: "Toy",
selected: true
}, {
id: 3,
name: "Phone",
selected: true
}]
I have a master control in my view that list a check box for each 3 products(Book,Toy and phone):These are checked by default
<div style="float:left" ng-init="allProducts.products = {}" >
<div ng-repeat="p in Data.products">
<div style="font-size: smaller">
<label><input id="divPlatorm" ng-model="products[p.name]" ng-init="products[p.name] = true" type="checkbox"/>
{{p.name}}</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Then a table that have the same products repeated in rows:
<div ng-repeat="line in lineProducts" ng-init="line.products = {}">
<div id="sc-p-enc" ng-repeat="p in Data.products">
<div id="sc-p-plat" style="font-size: smaller">
<label id="pl-label"><input ng-checked="products[p.name]" ng-model="line.products[p.name]" ng-init="line.products[p.name] = true" type="checkbox"/>
{{p.name}}</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
When I check/unchecked the master products the corresponding check boxes changes in the rows. So if I have 100 rows with (Book,Toy and phone) the unchecked Toy I can see where all toys are unchecked in the rows.
When I send the data to my controller I can still see all Toys = true even though they were unchecked.
If I physically go to the row then unchecked each toy and send the data to my controller Toys = False.
How can I get the check boxes selected state to change when controlled from the master check-boxes?
I have followed the post found here but I dont think this applies to my scenario:
AngularJS: ng-model not binding to ng-checked for checkboxes

Answer 1

It seems the ng-checked in the table is binding to products[p.name], which the ng-model in your master control in the view also binding to. But the ng-model in your table is binding to another property, line.products[p.name].
I think you probably don't need ng-checked in the table since each item has its own ng-model. So you might change your table view to
<label id="pl-label"><input ng-model="line.products[p.name]" type="checkbox"/>{{p.name}}</label>
and in the controller, change the corresponding value of line.products[p.name] every time the value of products[p.name] is changed.

Answer 2

I just solved this problem myself by using "ng-init" and "ng-checked" ---
ng-checked - 'checked' the checkbox as form was loaded
ng-init- bound my checkbox html value attribute to the model
There is a comment above stating that its not good to use ng-init in this manner, but not other solution was provided.
Here is an example using ng-select instead of ng-checked:
<select ng-model="formData.country">
<option value="US" ng-init="formData.country='US'" ng-selected="true">United States</option>
</select>
This binds "US" to model formData.country and selects the value on page load.

Answer 3

If I understand the functionality you are trying to cover the following fiddle might help you. Here is the code:
<div style="float:left" ng-app ng-init="products = [
{
id: 1,
name: 'Book',
line: 'Books',
selected: true
}, {
id: 2,
name: 'Another Book',
line: 'Books',
selected: true
}, {
id: 3,
name: 'Toy',
line: 'Toys',
selected: false
}, {
id: 4,
name: 'Another Toy',
line: 'Toys',
selected: false
}, {
id: 5,
name: 'Phone',
selected: true
}];lineProducts = ['Toys', 'Books']" >
<div style="float:left">
<div ng-repeat="p in products">
<div style="font-size: smaller">
<label>
<input ng-model="p.selected" type="checkbox"/>
{{p.name}}
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div ng-repeat="line in lineProducts">
{{line}}
<div ng-repeat="p in products | filter:line">
<div style="font-size: smaller">
<label>
<input ng-model="p.selected" type="checkbox"/>
{{p.name}}
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Also why do you have ids in your html? With angular there is no need in ids, and considering that they are inside ng-repeats they will be ambiguous and therefore useless anyway.
I also agree with Nikos about usage of the ng-init. I used it in my jsfiddle because I am lazy, I would not use it in the production code

Answer 4

You should use ng-model there that would provide you two way binding. Checking and unchecking the value would update the value of product.selected
<input type="checkbox" ng-model="p.selected"/>