How to get parent element inside ng-include when iterating in ng-repeat recursively

Question

I made a recursive ng-repeat element, and trying to manipulate things has turned into a nightmare, because I don\'t have reference to the parent I\'m iterating over.

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Answer 1

I would stay away from Angular's $parent and all the $scope creation and inheritance madness. What you need is to keep a reference to the parent object, not finding how many scopes are in-between ng-include's and ng-repeat's and juggling with $parent.$parent. My suggestion is to explicitly save references to the values you are interested in, just implement it yourself with custom logic. For example, if you want to expose a value from the parent ng-repeat to the child ng-repeat

Then in your javascript code you can access all parents recursively

function doSomething(value){
  parent1 = value._parent;
  parent2 = parent1._parent;
}

Same code with ng-include