I'm new in angular and I reeding A.Freeman's book "Pro Angular JS". So I stuck in one of examples trying to understand why filter in ng-repeat is triggered. Here is the code:
<body ng-controller="sportsStoreCtrl">
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">SPORTS STORE</a>
</div>
<div class="panel panel-default row" ng-controller="productListCtrl">
<div class="col-xs-3">
<a ng-click="selectCategory()" class="btn btn-block btn-default btn-lg">Home</a>
<a ng-repeat="item in data.products | orderBy:'category' | unique:'category'" ng-click="selectCategory(item)" class=" btn btn-block btn-default btn-lg">
{{item}}
</a>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-8">
<div class="well" ng-repeat="item in data.products | filter:categoryFilterFn">
<h3>
<strong>{{item.name}}</strong>
<span class="pull-right label label-primary">
{{item.price | currency}}
</span>
</h3>
<span class="lead">{{item.description}}</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
and
angular.module("sportsStore")
.controller("productListCtrl", function ($scope, $filter) {
var selectedCategory = null;
$scope.selectCategory = function (newCategory) {
selectedCategory = newCategory;
}
$scope.categoryFilterFn = function (product) {
return selectedCategory == null ||
product.category == selectedCategory;
}
});
categoryFilterFn is one that confuses me. Why it's invoking when I press catefory buttons (with selectCategory() method on ng-click) since I never call categoryFilterFn explicitly?
