angular-recursion-injector

Provider that allows you to use recursive directives.

Problem and solution

In some cases you need to call same directive from it's own template.

Lets assume we have directive with name node and following template:

<div class="node">
  <span>{{name}}</span>

  <node ng-if="subNode" ng-model="subNode"></node>
</div>

The problem with this template is that compilation of the node directive will get to the infinite loop. angular-recursion allows to solve this problem and to create directive with recursion. Template for the same directive with usage of angular-recursion will look like this:

<div class="node">
  <span>{{name}}</span>

  <node--recursion recursion-if="subNode" ng-model="subNode"></node--recursion>
</div>

We added --recursion suffix. To check if we need recursion we use recursion-if attribute with expression.

Installation

Bower

bower install --save angular-recursion-injector

Manually

Just take right file from dist folder.

How to use

Add the dependency to your module: angularRecursion. angular.module('yourModuleNmae', ['angularRecursion'...
Inject AngularRecursion into your directive.

angular.module('yourModuleName')
  .directive('node', ['AngularRecursion', function (AngularRecursion) {
  return {
      restrict: 'E',
      replace: true,
      scope: {
        ngModel: '='
      },
      template: '<div class="node"><span>{{name}}</span><node--recursion recursion-if="subNode" ng-model="subNode"></node--recursion></div>',
      link: AngularRecursion.link('node', function(scope) {
      })
      //compile: AngularRecursion.compile('node', {
      //  pre: function(scope, element) {
      //    console.log('pre');
      //  },
      //  post: function(scope, element) {
      //    console.log('post');
      //  }
      //})
    };
  }]
);

You can use AngularRecursion.link for link and AngularRecursion.compile for compile. You SHOULD provide name of the tag (without --recursion suffix) as first parameter for AngularRecursion.link or AngularRecursion.compile.

Restrictions

Can be used only with directive with restriction to the element name (restrict: 'E').

###Licence angular-recursion-injector

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.