Limiting number of displayed results when using ngRepeat
I find the AngularJS tutorials hard to understand; this one is walking me through building an app that displays phones. I’m on step 5 and I thought as an experiment I’d try to allow users to specify how many they’d like to be shown. The view looks like this:
<body ng-controller="PhoneListCtrl">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span2">
<!--Sidebar content-->
Search: <input ng-model="query">
How Many: <input ng-model="quantity">
Sort by:
<select ng-model="orderProp">
<option value="name">Alphabetical</option>
<option value="age">Newest</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="span10">
<!--Body content-->
<ul class="phones">
<li ng-repeat="phone in phones | filter:query | orderBy:orderProp">
{{phone.name}}
<p>{{phone.snippet}}</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
I’ve added this line where users can enter how many results they want shown:
How Many: <input ng-model="quantity">
Here’s my controller:
function PhoneListCtrl($scope, $http) {
$http.get('phones/phones.json').success(function(data) {
$scope.phones = data.splice(0, 'quantity');
});
$scope.orderProp = 'age';
$scope.quantity = 5;
}
The important line is:
$scope.phones = data.splice(0, 'quantity');
I can hard-code in a number to represent how many phones should be shown. If I put 5 in, 5 will be shown. All I want to do is read the number in that input from the view, and put that in the data.splice line. I’ve tried with and without quotes, and neither work. How do I do this?
Answer
Slightly more "Angular way" would be to use the straightforward limitTo filter, as natively provided by Angular:
<ul class="phones">
<li ng-repeat="phone in phones | filter:query | orderBy:orderProp | limitTo:quantity">
{{phone.name}}
<p>{{phone.snippet}}</p>
</li>
</ul>
app.controller('PhoneListCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
$http.get('phones.json').then(
function(phones){
$scope.phones = phones.data;
}
);
$scope.orderProp = 'age';
$scope.quantity = 5;
}
);