I\'m using the angular ui-bootstrap typeahead and I would want to use it as a way to pick up many choices, so I\'d need to get the selected value when selectMatch method is
Edit: this method is not the best one now. It's better to use onSelect callback like explained in the answer above this one.
I found how how do to do what I wanted. I did see that there is a typeahead-editable attribute and if it's set to false then the selected value change only when a value from the model is selected. And so the $watch is working fine to check when a new value is selected.
<input type="text" ng-model="selected" typeahead="state for state in states | filter:$viewValue" typeahead-editable="false">
link: function(scope, elm, attrs){
scope.$watch('selected', function(newValue, oldValue) {
if (newValue)
console.log(oldValue+"->"+newValue);
});
}
Following should be your HTML
<input id="title" type="text" ng-model="title" typeahead="data.enquiry_title for data in titleData | filter:$viewValue | limitTo:8"
typeahead-on-select='onSelect($item, $model, $label)' />
just add typeahead-on-select in input tag with the callback function.
Following would go inside controller
$scope.onSelect = function ($item, $model, $label) {
console.log($item);
if($item.tid)
$scope.activeTitleId = $item.tid
};
inside $item you'll get the whole object which you have passed in the main array of suggestion list
try the following before validation
modelCtrl.$setValidity('editable', true);
There is better way of doing this now. A new callback method has been added
In controller file add the following:
$scope.onSelect = function ($item, $model, $label) {
$scope.$item = $item;
$scope.$model = $model;
$scope.$label = $label;
};
In view add the following:
<input type="text"
ng-model="selected"
typeahead="state for state in states | filter:$viewValue"
typeahead-editable="false"
typeahead-on-select="onSelect($item, $model, $label)"/>
See the typeahead spec for more information (search for onSelect).
Check out if the following URLs helps http://www.techguides.in/how-to-create-autocomplete-using-angularjs-ui/
http://www.techguides.in/how-to-customize-autocomplete-to-display-multiple-columns-using-angularjs-ui-2/