Still this problem Angular.js more complex conditional loops but I felt that the answer to the question as it was asked was right so I accepted it.
So let me elaborate more than I did in the original question.
I'm trying to get this
<h3>11.4.2013</h3>
<ul>
<li>oofrab | 4 | 11.4.2013 14:55 <button>remove</button></li>
<li>raboof | 3 | 11.4.2013 13:35 <button>remove</button></li>
</ul>
<h3>10.4.2013</h3>
<ul>
<li>barfoo | 2 | 10.4.2013 18:10 <button>remove</button></li>
<li>foobar | 1 | 10.4.2013 12:55 <button>remove</button></li>
</ul>
from this data structure
[
{
"id": 4,
"name": "oofrab",
"date": "2013-11-04 14:55:00"
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "raboof",
"date": "2013-11-04 13:55:00"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "barfoo",
"date": "2013-10-04 18:10:00"
},
{
"id": 1,
"name": "foobar",
"date": "2013-10-04 12:55:00"
}
]
Basically the only extra thing over the standard ng-repeat
I want to add are those headings. And I simply can't believe I'd have to go thru so many problems by adding them.
This is what I ended up with using the answer I got in the first question http://plnkr.co/edit/Zl5EcsiXXV92d3VH9Hqk?p=preview
Note that there can realistically be up to 400 entries. And I need to be able to add/remove/edit entries on the fly
What the example on plunker is doing is this:
iterating thru the original data creating a new data structure looking like this
{
"2013-10-05": [
{
"id": 4,
"name": "oofrab",
"date": "2013-10-05 14:55:00",
"_orig_index": 0
},
{
"id": 3,
"name": "raboof",
"date": "2013-10-05 13:55:00",
"_orig_index": 1
}
],
"2013-10-04": [
{
"id": 2,
"name": "barfoo",
"date": "2013-10-04 18:10:00",
"_orig_index": 2
},
{
"id": 1,
"name": "foobar",
"date": "2013-10-04 12:55:00",
"_orig_index": 3
}
]
}
allowing me to then get the result I wanted by doing this
<div ng-repeat="(date,subItems) in itemDateMap">
<h3>{{date}}</h3>
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="item in subItems">
{{item.name}} | {{item.id}} | {{item.date}}
<button type="button" ng-click="removeItem(item._orig_index)">x</button>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Great. But it comes with a cost of shizzload of problems. Everytime a new item is added I have to rebuild the itemDateMap
, everytime an item is deleted I have to rebuild the itemDateMap
, everytime date is changed, I have to rebuild the itemDateMap
. When I want to remove an item, I have to first get index of its original reference. And everytime itemDateMap
is rebuilt, the whole thing is re-rendered. And it can't be sorted, as it's an object rather than an array.
When there's a couple of hundred of entries, it also becomes really, really slow. I read somewhere that ng-repeat is quite intelligent, watching values, moving nods in dom rather than re-rendering everything and stuff, but it surely doesn't work this way when I rebuild the whole structure.
This can't be right, all this hassle to do a very, very simple thing..
What should I do?