AngularJS ng-click broken inside a popover

Question

I'm trying to write a directive to load a partial html file, compile it against a scope & use it as the Bootstrap popover content.

However I'm stuck at a very basic step, write a hide() method on the popover scope so that I can easily close it using ng-click=hide().

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This has been solved & the plunker is now covering other issues ;-).

UPDATE : plunker to the rescue : http://plnkr.co/edit/QH3NQh?p=preview

.directive('uiPopover', ['$compile', '$http', function($compile, $http) {
return {
    restrict: 'A',
    scope: {
        hide: '&hide' // did not understand what is this
    },
    link: function postLink(scope, element, attr, ctrl) {
        console.warn('postLink', arguments, this);

        // scope is the anchor scope
        scope.name = "Hello"; // Using {{name}} is working
        scope.hide = function() { // Using ng-click="hide()" is not working :(
            console.log('in');
            element.popover('hide');
        }

        $http.get(attr.uiPopover).success(function(data) {
            element.popover({
                content: $compile(data)(scope), // popover content will get a new scope that I need to put hide() on.
                html: true
            });
        });


    }
}
}]);

Answer 1

My solution is the same, but for whatever it's worth, this is the code snippet I end up using. Hope this helps!

//Initialize & config popover controls
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover({ html : true })
    .click(function(ev) {
     //this is workaround needed in order to make ng-click work inside of popover
     $compile($('.popover.in').contents())($scope);
});

And don't forget to include $compile and $scope as dependency.

Answer 2

See this google group thread, in particular Andy's fiddle. The difficultly seems to be that the popover widget/component creates a new DOM element that is placed outside the scope where the ui-popover directive is.