I am using angularjs with ui-grid. One column of the grid contains a timestamp that I would like to render as a properly formatted date.
Up to now, I tried like this but the function is never called.
$scope.formatDate = function(date) {
return '42';
};
$scope.columns = [
{field: 'date', cellTemplate: '<div class="ui-grid-cell-contents">formatDate({{row.entity.date}})</div>'},
{field: 'title'},
{field: 'quantity'},
//[...]
];
Instead, the function call is considered as a string literal. As a result, the column always displays formatDate(*timestamp*).
I only found a non-satisfying way of achieving it by defining a function on each single row when receiving them :
$scope.columns = [
{field: 'getFormattedDate()'},
//[...]
];
$http.post('/api/data/').success(function (data) {
$scope.gridOptions.data = data.elements;
$scope.gridOptions.data.forEach(function(row) {
row.getFormattedDate = function() {
return '42';
}
})
});
Any better suggestion?
If you want to access controller scope level functions using ui-grid you can use grid.appScope, here is a quick example:
{
name: 'date',
cellTemplate: '<div class="ui-grid-cell-contents">{{grid.appScope.parseDate(row.entity.date)}}</div>'
}
Full Example:
angular.module('myApp', ['ui.grid'])
.controller('myCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) {
$scope.parseDate = function (p) {
// Just return the value you want to output
return p;
}
$scope.parseName = function (p) {
// Just return the value you want to output
return p;
}
$scope.gridOptions = {
data: [{
name: "Foo",
date: "2015-10-12"
}, {
name: "Bar",
date: "2014-10-12"
}],
columnDefs: [{
name: 'name',
cellTemplate: '<div class="ui-grid-cell-contents">{{grid.appScope.parseName(row.entity.name)}}</div>'
}, {
name: 'date',
cellTemplate: '<div class="ui-grid-cell-contents">{{grid.appScope.parseDate(row.entity.date)}}</div>'
}]
};
}]);