How to filter multiple values (OR operation) in angularJS

Question

I want to use the filter in angular and want to filter for multiple values, if it has either one of the values then it should be displayed.

I have for

Answer 1

I've spent some time on it and thanks to @chrismarx, I saw that angular's default filterFilter allows you to pass your own comparator. Here's the edited comparator for multiple values:

  function hasCustomToString(obj) {
        return angular.isFunction(obj.toString) && obj.toString !== Object.prototype.toString;
  }
  var comparator = function (actual, expected) {
    if (angular.isUndefined(actual)) {
      // No substring matching against `undefined`
      return false;
    }
    if ((actual === null) || (expected === null)) {
      // No substring matching against `null`; only match against `null`
      return actual === expected;
    }
    // I edited this to check if not array
    if ((angular.isObject(expected) && !angular.isArray(expected)) || (angular.isObject(actual) && !hasCustomToString(actual))) {
      // Should not compare primitives against objects, unless they have custom `toString` method
      return false;
    }
    // This is where magic happens
    actual = angular.lowercase('' + actual);
    if (angular.isArray(expected)) {
      var match = false;
      expected.forEach(function (e) {
        e = angular.lowercase('' + e);
        if (actual.indexOf(e) !== -1) {
          match = true;
        }
      });
      return match;
    } else {
      expected = angular.lowercase('' + expected);
      return actual.indexOf(expected) !== -1;
    }
  };

And if we want to make a custom filter for DRY:

angular.module('myApp')
    .filter('filterWithOr', function ($filter) {
      var comparator = function (actual, expected) {
        if (angular.isUndefined(actual)) {
          // No substring matching against `undefined`
          return false;
        }
        if ((actual === null) || (expected === null)) {
          // No substring matching against `null`; only match against `null`
          return actual === expected;
        }
        if ((angular.isObject(expected) && !angular.isArray(expected)) || (angular.isObject(actual) && !hasCustomToString(actual))) {
          // Should not compare primitives against objects, unless they have custom `toString` method
          return false;
        }
        console.log('ACTUAL EXPECTED')
        console.log(actual)
        console.log(expected)

        actual = angular.lowercase('' + actual);
        if (angular.isArray(expected)) {
          var match = false;
          expected.forEach(function (e) {
            console.log('forEach')
            console.log(e)
            e = angular.lowercase('' + e);
            if (actual.indexOf(e) !== -1) {
              match = true;
            }
          });
          return match;
        } else {
          expected = angular.lowercase('' + expected);
          return actual.indexOf(expected) !== -1;
        }
      };
      return function (array, expression) {
        return $filter('filter')(array, expression, comparator);
      };
    });

And then we can use it anywhere we want:

$scope.list=[
  {name:'Jack Bauer'},
  {name:'Chuck Norris'},
  {name:'Superman'},
  {name:'Batman'},
  {name:'Spiderman'},
  {name:'Hulk'}
];



  

    {{item.name}}
  

Finally here's a plunkr.

Note: Expected array should only contain simple objects like String, Number etc.