Updates at the bottom
I wrote a filter to manage what I displace in my ng-repeat. However, when the data being returned should be an empty array, in IE 9+ I get a crash, but in FF and Chrome it works fine.
BuildFilter below is called from angular.module('app').filter(filterId, buildFilter);
function buildFilter() {
return function (input, limitTo, keyWords) {
var outputPre = [];
var outputPost = [];
var d = new Date();
console.log('filter event: '
+ d.getHours() + ":"
+ d.getMinutes() + ":"
+ d.getSeconds());
var outputPre = [];
if (!(limitTo === null
|| limitTo === undefined
|| limitTo === '')) {
for (var i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
if (input[i] !== null && input[i] !== undefined) {
switch (limitTo) {
case 'edi':
if (input[i].dateReleased === null) {
outputPre.push(input[i]);
}
break;
case 'rel':
if (input[i].dateReleased !== null
&& input[i].dateRetired === null) {
outputPre.push(input[i]);
}
break;
case 'ret':
if (input[i].dateRetired !== null) {
outputPre.push(input[i]);
}
break;
default:
outputPre.push(input[i]);
}
}
}
}
else {
for (var i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
outputPre.push(input[i]);
}
}
//Sanity Check Log Entry
console.log('pre count: ' + outputPre.length);
if (!(keyWords === null
|| keyWords === undefined
|| keyWords === '')) {
var tkw = keyWords.toLocaleLowerCase();
for (var i = 0; i < outputPre.length; i++) {
var tn = outputPre[i].name.toLocaleLowerCase();
if (tn.indexOf(tkw) > -1) {
outputPost.push(outputPre[i]);
}
}
}
else {
for (var i = 0; i < outputPre.length; i++) {
outputPost.push(outputPre[i]);
}
}
//Sanity Check Log Entry
console.log('post count: ' + outputPost.length);
return outputPost;
};
};
My sample data is:
var data= [ //for input
{
id: 0,
dateCreated: '1/1/2014',
dateReleased: null,
dateRetired: null,
name: 'Sample Data',
},
{
id: 1,
dateCreated: '1/1/2014',
dateReleased: null,
dateRetired: null,
name: 'Other Sample Data',
},
]
limitTo
supports the following values: 'edi' 'rel', 'ret'
keyWords
is just any string. It just looks to see if any part of the string is in the name field.
Update to post:
Reduced the code to the following.
function isEdi(obj) {
if ((obj.dateReleased === null)
&& (obj.dateRetired === null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
function isRel(obj) {
if ((obj.dateReleased !== null)
&& (obj.dateRetired === null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
function isRet(obj) {
if ((obj.dateReleased !== null)
&& (obj.dateRetired !== null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
function buildFilter() {
return function (input, limitTo) {
var output = [];
switch (limitTo) {
case 'edi':
output = input.filter(isEdi);
break;
case 'rel':
output = input.filter(isRel);
break;
case 'ret':
output = input.filter(isRet);
break;
default:
output = input;
}
return output;
};
};
IE crashes when the return is [], but works fine if the return as at least 1 record.
2ns Update to post:
Changed the repeat to ng-repeat="obj in objlist | filter:getObJFilter(objFilter) | orderBy:['+dateRetired','+dateReleased','+name']">
objFilter
is a parameter to get the filter function to pass to filter. This way I am just extending the native filter rather than creating a new filter.
So my controller contains the following.
$scope.getFilter = function (val) {
switch (val) {
case 'edi':
return isEdi();
break;
case 'rel':
return isRel();
break;
case 'ret':
return isRet();
break;
default:
return function (obj) {return true };
}
}
function isEdi() {
return function(obj){
if ((obj.dateReleased === null)
&& (obj.dateRetired === null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}}
function isRel() {
return function (obj) {
if ((obj.dateReleased !== null)
&& (obj.dateRetired === null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
function isRet() {
return function (obj) {
if ((obj.dateReleased !== null)
&& (obj.dateRetired !== null)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
}
I believe that I have done everything I can to eliminate the filter as being the problem. So I am now to where I believe there is a problem with an empty set being rendered in IE.
I will post a full test example in Plunkr tonight.
Note: I am also using AngularUI and Angular for UI Bootstrap. Shortcut for getting needed directives. However, I have had problems with UI Bootstrap on other issues, so I am going to replace a few more of their components to isolate the problem some more.
3rd Update I have removed all 3rd party directives. I did have UI Bootstrap to support TBS, so I eliminated that to save my sanity.