Infinitely nested ng-repeat in an Angular directive

Question

I have an object containing infinitely nested data, like the following example:

[
{
    name: "Foo",
    value: "Bar",
    sub: [
        {
            name: "ABC",
            value: "LLL",
            sub: [
                ...
            ]
        },
        {
            ...
        }
    ]
},
{
    name: "Oof",
    value: "Rab"
    sub: [
        ...
    ]
}
]

Every element can contain a sub value, which would contain one or multiple elements with the same structure (name, value, sub if there are more sub-elements).

Now, I know how to do a ng-repeat, but with a single ng-repeat, I'll get only the elements from the first level. If I did a second ng-repeat inside the first one, I'd get only the items from the second level, etc...

As I don't know how many levels there would be, I can't just nest a few ng-repeat inside each other. That is why I'm looking for a way to recursively loop over the entire data array and represent all the items that are inside, inside an Angular directive (that is, using Angular's directives/attributes inside my HTML code). Is that possible with Angular (1.3.x) ?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible by using inline template

Example :

<script type="text/ng-template" id="namVal">
{{ item.name}}
   <ul ng-if="item.sub">
    <li ng-repeat="item in item.sub" ng-include="'namVal'"></li>
  </ul>
</script>

in html

<ul>
   <li ng-repeat="item in items" ng-include="'namVal'"></li>
</ul>  

UPDATED using Plunkr example by @alexandernst http://plnkr.co/edit/dKlrvtYH1IbQXFUEk2Wx?p=preview