How to bind multiple JSON files in ng-repeat (AngularJS)?

Question

I have multiple JSON files:

main.json:

{
  "MainRegister": [
    {
      "name": "Name1",
      "url": "url1.json",
    },
    {
      "name": "Name2",
      "url": "url2.json",
    },
 ]
}

url1.json

{
  "SubInformation": {
    "description": "Hello World 1",
    "identifier": "id1",
  }
}

url2.json

{
  "SubInformation": {
    "description": "Hello World 2",
    "identifier": "id2",
  }
}

Now I want to create a ng-repeat div in my index.html such that it loads all the fields from the files, moreover I want to display the following output:

• Name1: Hello World 1 (id1)
• Name2: Hello World 2 (id2)

How can I bind these files in a ng-repeat way? Or is there another way?

Answer 1

You need to load them first, then set up a scope variable that contains the necessary data in an array. You can do the $http get in your controller (as in the example below), but if it is anything reusable or more than a simple app, I would recommend doing it in an injected service.

.controller('MyCtrl', function($scope,$http){
   $scope.entries = [];
   $http.get('main.json').success(function(data) {
      angular.forEach(data.MainRegister,function(entry) {
         $http.get(entry.url).
          success(function(data) {
            $scope.entries.push(angular.extend(entry,data.SubInformation);
         });
      });
   });
});

and then your template can look something like

<div ng-repeat="entry in entries">
  <span>{{entry.name}}: {{entry.description}} ({{entry.id}})</span>
</div>

You can use filters if you want to order them, or load the $scope.entries in a particular order, or if you don't want to show any entries until all are ready, then you can set a ready var, or only set $scope.entries at the end, etc.

Let me add that I don't like that kind of deeper and deeper embedded ajax calls, as well as the series of them, but it is a question of style. I have become a big fan of caolan's async library for making the above controller code far cleaner. http://github.com/caolan/async