“Duplicates in a repeater are not allowed” on ng-repeat

Question

I\'ve got the following json data returned from a service request:

{
    \"entries\": [{
        \"id\": 2081,
        \"name\": \"BM\",
        \"niceName\": \"         


        

Answer 1

If I may add an additional reason as to why this can occur...

If you are doing this with a JS object [] or {}

and you are passing it in to a directive like this

Inside the directive you must turn myObject back into an object by doing this

...
controller: function( $scope ){

  $scope.links = $scope.$eval( $scope.myObject );
....

Then the HTML and ng-repeat will work

...

...

ngRepeat does not know how to repeat over a single string.

Here is what the object would look like before $scope.$eval

"[{ hello: 'you' }]"

and after $scope.$eval()

[{ hello: 'you' }] an actual object to repeat over.

The error kind of makes a reference that it cannot repeat of a string. Here is the error that I got.

Error: [ngRepeat:dupes] http://errors.angularjs.org/1.3.0-beta.8/ngRepeat/dupes?p0=link%20in%20links&p1=string%3Al