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Aditya Khanna
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Aditya Khanna
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Posted by Aditya Khanna
Aditya Khanna
Courses Plus Student 200 Points

ngoptions erratic behaviour

I am developing an expressjs based app and am using angular with it, just to clarify i am an angular newbie and the problem i am facing is quite peculiar, i am fetching data from an external resource using $http and then using ngoptions to populate a select element, code is as below.

<html ng-app="lsplapp"> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.13/angular.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> var app = angular.module('lsplapp', []); app.controller('Test', function($scope, $http){ $scope.selectedItem = null; var http_obj = $http.post("http://localhost:3000/api/",{mfunc:"gt"}) http_obj.success(function(data, status, headers, config){ $scope.items = data['200']; $scope.selectedItem = $scope.items[0]; }) http_obj.error(function(data, status, headers, config){ console.log(data) }) console.log($scope.selectedItem) // $scope.items = [{name: 'one', age: 30 },{ name: 'two', age: 27 },{ name: 'three', age: 50 }]; // $scope.selectedItem = $scope.items[0]; }); </script> </head> <body> <div ng-controller="Test"> <p>selected item is : {{selectedItem}}</p> <p> age of selected item is : {{selectedItem.staff_name}} </p> <select ng-model="selectedItem" ng-options="item.staff_name for item in items track by item._id"> </select> </div> </body> </html>

this page works fine when i run it individually from my local disk , the selectedItem gets updated and i get to see the updated selectedItem values as the selection in the combo changes. but as soon as i attach this page as a view to a route in my expressjs app , the combo gets populated with the relevant data , but the selectedItem model does not get populated , i.e. the value of the selectedItem model does not get updated and defaults to null.

Any Pointers will be great, TIA

jaredcowan
jaredcowan
11,808 Points

Sorry for the late response. Do you still need help with this?

Let me know.