I am trying to display a binary tree of elements, which I go through recursively with ng-include.
What is the difference between ng-init="item = item.left"
and ng-repeat="item in item.left"
?
In this example it behaves exactly the same, but I use similiar code in a project and there it behaves differently. I suppose it's because of Angular scopes.
Maybe I shouldn't use ng-if, please explain me how to do it better.
The pane.html is:
<div ng-if="!isArray(item.left)">
<div ng-repeat="item in [item.left]" ng-include="'Views/pane.html'">
</div>
</div>
<div ng-if="isArray(item.left)">
{{item.left[0]}}
</div>
<div ng-if="!isArray(item.right)">
<div ng-repeat="item in [item.right]" ng-include="'Views/pane.html'">
</div>
</div>
<div ng-if="isArray(item.right)">
{{item.right[0]}}
</div>
<div ng-if="!isArray(item.left)">
<div ng-init = "item = item.left" ng-include="'Views/pane.html'">
</div>
</div>
<div ng-if="isArray(item.left)">
{{item.left[0]}}
</div>
<div ng-if="!isArray(item.right)">
<div ng-init="item = item.right" ng-include="'Views/pane.html'">
</div>
</div>
<div ng-if="isArray(item.right)">
{{item.right[0]}}
</div>
The controller is:
var app = angular.module('mycontrollers', []);
app.controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope) {
$scope.tree = {
left: {
left: ["leftleft"],
right: {
left: ["leftrightleft"],
right: ["leftrightright"]
}
},
right: {
left: ["rightleft"],
right: ["rightright"]
}
};
$scope.isArray = function (item) {
return Array.isArray(item);
}
});
EDIT: First I run into the problem that the directive ng-repeat has a greater priority than ng-if. I tried to combine them, which failed. IMO it's strange that ng-repeat dominates ng-if.