Setting the selected item in angularJS select directive

Question

I have a problem with setting the selected item in angular\'s select directive. I don\'t know if this is a bug or a conscious design from the designers of angular. It sure makes

Answer 1

I came accross the same problem. My options and the modeled data both came from separate API calls.

Instead of adding a layer of indirection by using ng-model on the object keys, I ended up writing a simple directive that uses a "proxy" variable.

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Using a $watch on customer.city and customer_cityProxy, I get the expected behaviour.

There are still a few drawbacks, on being that it only works if the keys are disjoints.

Code is available here: https://github.com/gosusnp/options-proxy