I am trying to get at an angular form in scope to verify validations etc.
Base Case
Let us say I have the following HTML:
<body ng-controller='MyAwesomeController'>
<form name="fooForm">
<textarea ng-model="reason" required=""></textarea>
</form>
<div class='btn btn-primary' ng-click="submit()" ng-class="{'btn-disabled': true}">Awesome Submit Button</div>
</body>
And the following controller
angular.module('MyAwesomeController', '$scope', function(scope){
scope.submit = function(){
console.debug(scope)
}
})
This will work, and upon inspection, scope will contain a fooForm key.
Let us now say that I introduce an angular ui bootstrap modal into the mix like so:
Broken Case
<body ng-controller="AwesomeParentController">
<div class="btn btn-primary" ng-click="open()">Open the Modal</div>
</body>
with the following two controllers:
.controller('AwesomeParentController', ['$scope', '$modal', function(scope, modal){
scope.open = function(){
options = {
windowClass: 'modal discontinue-modal',
templateUrl: 'modal.html',
controller: 'AwesomeModalController'
}
modalInstance = modal.open(options)
modalInstance.result.then(function(){
console.debug("result!")
})
}
}])
.controller("AwesomeModalController", ['$scope', '$modalInstance', function(scope, modalInstance){
scope.submit = function(){
console.debug(scope)
}
}])
with the following modal.html:
<form name="fooForm">
<textarea ng-model="reason" required=""></textarea>
</form>
<div class='btn btn-primary' ng-click="submit()">Awesome Submit Button</div>
When the first button is clicked, a modal opens, the second button click prints a scope, which does NOT contain fooForm, rather fooForm resides on scope.$$childTail
Plunkr: http://embed.plnkr.co/jFGU0teIbL3kUXdyTPxR/preview
Possible Fix
<form name="fooForm">
<div ng-controller ="JankyFormController">
<textarea ng-model="reason" required=""></textarea>
<div class='btn btn-primary' ng-click="submit()">Awesome Submit Button</div>
</div>
</form>
.controller('JankyFormController', ['$scope', function(scope){
scope.models['fooForm'] = scope.fooForm
}])
Plunkr: http://embed.plnkr.co/BAZFbS7hFRhHm8DqOpQy/preview
Why is the form being masked? What would be a clean way to get at it without having to create a nested child controller? what if I want to bind ng-class to the forms validity? Would I now have to construct a watch around ($$childTail).fooForm.$valid?
