In one of the controllers of my angular application i have a variable set as follows.
SomeService.get({}, function(data){
// this sets xyz as the list of
Though this is already answered a year ago, since this is one of the top results in Google, I thought I can add the following suggestion which may be the easiest way to filter. After injecting $filter into your controller,
var result = $filter('filter')($scope.xyz, {id:"1"});
reference: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/filter