I am attempting to do something like this:
<div ng-form="testForm" ng-init="$ctrl.doStuffWithForm(testForm)>
Where I define a form/publish the form to the current scope with the name testForm and pass that form object to $ctrl.doStuffWithForm() in the ng-init. However, what appears to be happening is that, at the time of the ng-init, the form creation and/or the creation of testForm in the scope has not happened yet (other testing indicates to me that testForm does point to a form controller at a later point in the Angular lifecycle).
Is there any way for me to pass the form controller to a method in the ng-init like this? Or should I be doing it another way? Is there an attribute similar to ng-init, but that is used later in the lifecycle? What I am trying to do is basically an ng-repeat on an element with an ng-form, and pass each form to a controller method when each element is initialized.
I was able to achieve my desired results by putting the ng-init in a child element of the ng-form element:
<div ng-form="testForm">
<div ng-init="$ctrl.doStuffWithForm(testForm)></div>
</div>