Angular - Can't make ng-repeat orderBy work
Solution 1
The orderBy
only works with Arrays -- See http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.filter:orderBy
Also a great filter to use for Objects instead of Arrays @ Angularjs OrderBy on ng-repeat doesn't work
Solution 2
As mentioned, only arrays are allowed. But to make it simple for you, you could dynamically convert the object into an array via a piping function as seen here https://gist.github.com/brev/3949705
Just declare the filter, and add it to ng-repeat :)
<div ng-app="myApp">
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.8/angular.min.js"></script>
<div ng-controller="Main">
<div ng-repeat="release in releases | object2Array | orderBy:'environment_id'">{{release.environment_id}}</div>
</div>
<script>
var app = angular.module('myApp', []).filter('object2Array', function() {
return function(input) {
var out = [];
for(i in input){
out.push(input[i]);
}
return out;
}
})
.controller('Main',function ($scope) {
$scope.releases = {"tvl-c-wbap001 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 05:05:53 PM ","environment_id":"CERT5","release_header":"Projects/Dev","date":"19 Oct","release":"12.11.91-1"},"tvl-c-wbap401 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 10:07:25 AM ","environment_id":"CERT4","release_header":"Future Release","date":"15 Oct","release":"485-1"},"tvl-c-wbap301 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 07:59:48 AM ","environment_id":"CERT3","release_header":"Next Release","date":"15 Oct","release":"485-1"},"tvl-c-wbap201 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 03:34:07 AM ","environment_id":"CERT2","release_header":"Next Changes","date":"15 Oct","release":"13.12.3-1"},"tvl-c-wbap101 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 12:44:23 AM ","environment_id":"CERT1","release_header":"Production Mirror","date":"15 Oct","release":"13.11.309-1"},"tvl-s-wbap002 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 12:43:23 AM ","environment_id":"Stage2","date":"15 Oct","release":"13.11.310-1"},"tvl-s-wbap001 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 11:07:38 AM ","environment_id":"Stage1","release_header":"Production Mirror","date":"11 Oct","release":"13.11.310-1"},"tvl-p-wbap001 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 11:39:25 PM ","environment_id":"Production","release_header":"Pilots","date":"14 Oct","release":"13.11.310-1"},"tvl-p-wbap100 + tvl-webapp":{"timestamp":" 03:27:53 AM ","environment_id":"Production","release_header":"Non Pilots","date":"11 Oct","release":"13.11.309-1"}}
});
</script>
Solution 3
the built-in orderBy filter will no longer work when iterating an object. It’s ignored due to the way that object fields are stored. You need create a custom filter
yourApp.filter('orderObjectBy', function() {
return function(items, field, reverse) {
var filtered = [];
angular.forEach(items, function(item) {
filtered.push(item);
});
filtered.sort(function (a, b) {
return (a[field] > b[field] ? 1 : -1);
});
if(reverse) filtered.reverse();
return filtered;
};
});
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="item in items | orderObjectBy:'color':true">{{ item.color }}</li>
</ul>
Solution 4
in Eike Thies's response above, if we use underscore.js, filter could be simplified to :
var app = angular.module('myApp', []).filter('object2Array', function() {
return function(input) {
return _.toArray(input);
}
});
Solution 5
Here's a version of @Julian Mosquera's code that also supports sorting by object key:
yourApp.filter('orderObjectBy', function () {
return function (items, field, reverse) {
// Build array
var filtered = [];
for (var key in items) {
if (field === 'key')
filtered.push(key);
else
filtered.push(items[key]);
}
// Sort array
filtered.sort(function (a, b) {
if (field === 'key')
return (a > b ? 1 : -1);
else
return (a[field] > b[field] ? 1 : -1);
});
// Reverse array
if (reverse)
filtered.reverse();
return filtered;
};
});
Luke SpringWalker
Updated on July 18, 2020Comments
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Luke SpringWalker almost 4 years
I've tried many examples of ng-repeat with orderBy, but I can't make my json work with it.
<div ng-app> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.0.1/angular-1.0.1.js"></script> <div ng:controller="Main"> <div ng-repeat="release in releases| orderBy:'environment_id'"> {{release.environment_id}} </div> </div> </div>
And the JSON
function Main($scope) { $scope.releases = { "tvl-c-wbap001 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 05:05:53 PM ", "environment_id": "CERT5", "release_header": "Projects/Dev", "date": "19 Oct", "release": "12.11.91-1" }, "tvl-c-wbap401 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 10:07:25 AM ", "environment_id": "CERT4", "release_header": "Future Release", "date": "15 Oct", "release": "485-1" }, "tvl-c-wbap301 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 07:59:48 AM ", "environment_id": "CERT3", "release_header": "Next Release", "date": "15 Oct", "release": "485-1" }, "tvl-c-wbap201 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 03:34:07 AM ", "environment_id": "CERT2", "release_header": "Next Changes", "date": "15 Oct", "release": "13.12.3-1" }, "tvl-c-wbap101 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 12:44:23 AM ", "environment_id": "CERT1", "release_header": "Production Mirror", "date": "15 Oct", "release": "13.11.309-1" }, "tvl-s-wbap002 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 12:43:23 AM ", "environment_id": "Stage2", "date": "15 Oct", "release": "13.11.310-1" }, "tvl-s-wbap001 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 11:07:38 AM ", "environment_id": "Stage1", "release_header": "Production Mirror", "date": "11 Oct", "release": "13.11.310-1" }, "tvl-p-wbap001 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 11:39:25 PM ", "environment_id": "Production", "release_header": "Pilots", "date": "14 Oct", "release": "13.11.310-1" }, "tvl-p-wbap100 + tvl-webapp": { "timestamp": " 03:27:53 AM ", "environment_id": "Production", "release_header": "Non Pilots", "date": "11 Oct", "release": "13.11.309-1" } }
It doesn't matter what I write, I always get the same order, or I may say, no order at all.
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vp_arth almost 9 yearsI use simpler
toArray
filter:function(obj){return Object.keys(obj).map(function(key){return obj[key];});}
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CSS almost 9 yearsAwesome...just awesome. Thanks for posting this. Big help!
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CSS almost 9 yearsBest answer so far! Awesome.
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James Cazzetta over 8 yearsIm not sure if this happens with filters, but if you create an array on each sort using a function, the $digest triggers more than once. Can anyone tell if this happens using filter too? See docs.angularjs.org/error/$rootScope/infdig
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fran over 8 yearsCould it be that not only arrays are supported for orderBy now? De doc link states: "Array-like values (e.g. NodeLists, jQuery objects, TypedArrays, Strings, etc) are also supported."
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yu.pitomets almost 8 yearsI have an array, but this does not work in Chrome. Do you know why?