AngularJS - How to structure a custom filter with ng-repeat to return items conditionally

Question

I have an ng-repeat that prints list items. I want to write a custom filter so that the list item will print, only if a condition is true.

I seem to have the structure wrong as it seems the variables are not getting passed through to the filter.

index.php

<div ng-show="userDetails.username" class="nav">     <p>Menu</p>     <li ng-repeat="menuItem in menu | matchAccessLevel:$rootScope.userDetails.accessLevel:menuItem.minAccess | orderBy:'position' ">         <a ng-href="/angular-app/app/{{menuItem.id}}">{{menuItem.name}}</a>     </li> </div> 

app.js

userApp.filter('matchAccessLevel', function() {     return function( item, userAccessLevel, minAccessLevel ) {         if( userAccessLevel >= minAccessLevel ) {             return item;         }     } }); 

Answer 1

Filters don't work on individual items in the array, they transform the entire array into another array.

userApp.filter('matchAccessLevel', function() {   return function( items, userAccessLevel) {     var filtered = [];     angular.forEach(items, function(item) {       if(userAccessLevel >= item.minAccess) {         filtered.push(item);       }     });     return filtered;   }; }); 

See this plnkr

**always inspect the arguments to a function. It's not always obvious what the values are.*

see filters guide