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Horace Heaven
Horace Heaven

Reputation: 710

Angular JS observe on directive attribute

How can angular js watch attributes on custom directive in order to accept angular values to be bind

Here is what I have so far:

<tile title="Sleep Duration" data-value="{{sleepHistory.averageSleepTime}}"/>

app.directive('tile', [function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            var title = attrs.title;

            attrs.$observe('dataValue', function(val) {
                var data = val;

                console.log(data);

                var dom =
                    "<div>" +
                    "<p>" + title + "</p>" +
                    "<p>" + data + "</p>" +
                    "</div";

                $(element).append($(dom.trim()));
            });
        }
    };
}]);

but the observed value is coming back as undefined

Upvotes: 20

Views: 25080

Answers (3)

dnc253
dnc253

Reputation: 40327

From https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/type/$compile.directive.Attributes:

all of these are treated as equivalent in Angular:

<span ng:bind="a" ng-bind="a" data-ng-bind="a" x-ng-bind="a">

So the attribute data-value normalizes to value

So, this is what you want:

attrs.$observe('value', function(val) {

Upvotes: 42

Nammen8
Nammen8

Reputation: 629

You can also use a new attribute for your directive instead of data-value:

<tile title="Sleep Duration"  your-new-attribute={{sleepHistory.averageSleepTime}}" />

attrs.$observe('yourNewAttribute', function (newValue, oldValue) {
    if (newValue && newValue !== oldValue) {
        // ...
    }
});

Upvotes: 0

zs2020
zs2020

Reputation: 54504

Just watch the value instead of dataValue.

attrs.$observe('value', function (val)  { ...

Upvotes: 9

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