Angular JS - dynamically evaluate a directive

Question

Let's say I have a few directives: "drama", "comedy" and for some reason they have a lot of different properties, so it does not necessarily make sense to have a "movie" directive. Is there a way to dynamically evaluate a directive based on a scope variable? Something like this:

<{{movieType}} movie="{{movie}}"></{{movieType}}>

Where it would evaluate to something like this:

<comedy movie={{movie}}></comedy>

I'm new to Angular, so pardon for crazy ideas.

UPDATE: Actually just found a neat article regarding the exact same problem/solution: http://onehungrymind.com/angularjs-dynamic-templates/

Basically author has a single directive, but swaps out the templates based on the request:

var getTemplate = function(contentType) {
    var template = '';

    switch(contentType) {
        case 'image':
            template = imageTemplate;
            break;
        case 'video':
            template = videoTemplate;
            break;
        case 'notes':
            template = noteTemplate;
            break;
    }

    return template;
}

return {template: getTemplate(type)};

Answer 1

You could use a template function inside of a directive:

 app.directive('movie', function(){
      return {
           restrict:'A',
           template: function(element, attr){
                 ... define templates, i.e. <comedy />
                 var contentType = attr.movie;
                 switch(contentType) {
                       case 'comedy':
                             template = comedyTemplate;
                             break;
                       case 'drama':
                             template = dramaTemplate;
                             break;
                       case 'suspense':
                              template = suspenseTemplate;
                             break;
                    }
                return template;
           }
      }
 })

With this solution, no manual compilation is necessary.