Angular x-editable using setter instead of model field

Question

In my angular controller, my model does not exactly reflect the way the data is displayed on the screen. To display the data anyway, I use a method bound to $scope to extract the data to show.

<a href='#' editable-text="???" onaftersave='setData($data)'>
  {{ getData() }}
</a>

Showing the data works fine, but saving doesn't. Lacking an alternative, I used onaftersave to save the data. However, it seems that one needs to specify editable-text in order to get x-editable to work. Is there anything else I can do?

Answer 1

I try to answer my own question (in hope it's of use for anyone who stumbles upon the same problem): After reading parts of the source code, I think it is not possible to do this. I guess the whole point of having a controller is to transform the data into a format that is easy to display (i.e. in a way that x-editable can directly access it).