I am dealing with a dropdown menu that displays different groups. Each group has a property (boolean) indicating whether the owner is a user or another group.
If the group's owner is a user, I obtain the ownerID of the group and compare it with an array of users to find the matching user and set that user as the selectedOwner. On the other hand, if the group's owner is another group, I iterate through all my groups to identify the match and set that group as the selectedOwner.
This is the function in my controller:
$scope.groupOwner = function (){
var temp = $scope.selectedGroup.ownerIsUser ? $scope.users : $scope.groups;
var index = temp.length;
console.dir(temp);
while(index--){
if($scope.selectedGroup.owner === temp[index].id){
$scope.selectedOwner = temp[index];
console.log($scope.selectedOwner);
break;
};
};
};
Every time the dropdown changes, it triggers the groupOwner function which examines the selectedUser.ownerIsUser property to determine which array to search into, users or groups.
However, the temp variable always returns true, regardless of what the selectedGroup owner property is set to.
This is how the objects are structured:
User = {
name: Demo Administrator,
id: 90,
domain: i:0#.w|itun\demoadmin_compulite,
email: ,
isAdmin: False
}
selectedGroup = {
name: Test Group,
id: 10,
description: ,
owner: 88,
ownerIsUser: False
}
HTML:
<div class="topRow">
<label for="entityDropDown">Select a Group:</label>
<select id="entityDropDown" ng-model="selectedGroup" ng-options="group as group.name for group in groups" ng-change="getGroupInfo(selectedGroup)"></select>
<div class="delGroupBtn"><a>✖</a>
</div>
</div>
Console output of object:
Object {name: "Test Group 4", id: "117", description: "", owner: "71", ownerIsUser: "False"…}
description: ""
id: "117"
name: "Test Group 4"
owner: "71"
ownerIsUser: "False"
__proto__: Object
Solved:
$scope.groupOwner = function (){
//object stores string not booleans
var isUser = $scope.selectedGroup.ownerIsUser === "True"? true : false;
var owner = isUser ? $scope.user : $scope.group;
var index = owner.length;
console.dir(owner);
while(index--){
if($scope.selectedGroup.owner === owner[index].id){
$scope.selectedOwner = owner[index];
console.log($scope.selectedOwner);
break;
};
};
};