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Reputation: 618

How to access directive parameter in Angular JS?

I'm pretty new to Angular and I have run into a slight problem. I have this simple datepicker directive which works

app.directive('datepicker', function() {
    return {
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function(scope, elem, attr, ngModel){
        $(elem).datepicker({
            onSelect: function(dateText){
                scope.$apply(function(){
                    ngModel.$setViewValue(dateText);
                });
            }
        });
        }
    }
});

And the html I use to call it is

<input datepicker data-ng-model="day.date" readonly/>

I would like to be able to change the onSelect function called by the datepicker – hopefully with something like this.

<input datepicker="myOnSelectMethod()" data-ng-model="day.date" readonly/>

Then the directive would look something like this

app.directive('datepicker', function() {
    return {
        require: 'ngModel',
        link: function(scope, elem, attr, ngModel){
            if(myOnSelectMethod is defined){ //how do I access myOnSelectMethod here?
                $(elem).datepicker({
                    onSelect: myOnSelectMethod();
                });
            }
            else{ //proceed as before
                $(elem).datepicker({
                    onSelect: function(dateText){
                        scope.$apply(function(){
                            ngModel.$setViewValue(dateText);
                        });
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    }
});

So my question is: how do I access the new onSelect function I want to execute from my link function?

Looking through the docs and other SO questions this seems like it should be possible but I haven't been able to make it work. I've come up with an ugly workaround by using an ng-click to activate the datepicker on a given element, but I would like to learn how to make this work if possible. Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1119

Answers (1)

Ivan Chernykh
Ivan Chernykh

Reputation: 42166

You can check this way:

if( attr["datepicker"] == "myOnSelectMethod" && 
    typeof myOnSelectMethod === "function" ){
      // ...
}

Or even:

if( typeof scope[attr["datepicker"]] === "function" ){ // Instead of `scope` 
    // ...                                             // may be any other object,
}                                                      // `window` for example

Upvotes: 3

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