From 84e50c207ab7212ecc6619d826b45359f0c1482c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: g00fy- <g00fy.box@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 16:12:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat(ngModelController): expose $setModelValue

general usecase:
- allow other directives requiring `ngModel` to easily assign model value
- `$setViewValue` works only with basic "flat" values like strings or numbers (eg not objects).

currently similar thing can be achieved by using

`$parse(attr.ngModel).assign(scope.$parent,modelValue)`


Specific usecase:

AutoComplete input directive returning objects instead of values.

`<input type="text" auto-complete-user ng-model="user">`

parser:
`function(value){ return {name:value} )`

formatter:
`function(value){ return angular.isObject(value) ? value.name : value }`

the user list dropdown template:

`<li ng-repeat="user in users" ng-click="select(user)">{{user.name}}</li>`

and the `select` function would be:
`function(user){ngModel.$setModelValue(user)}`
---
 src/ng/directive/input.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ng/directive/input.js b/src/ng/directive/input.js
index 8307f7e816e8..b7763cc892ac 100644
--- a/src/ng/directive/input.js
+++ b/src/ng/directive/input.js
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ var NgModelController = ['$scope', '$exceptionHandler', '$attrs', '$element', '$
   this.$name = $attr.name;
 
   var ngModelGet = $parse($attr.ngModel),
-      ngModelSet = ngModelGet.assign;
+      ngModelSet = this.$setModelValue = ngModelGet.assign;
 
   if (!ngModelSet) {
     throw minErr('ngModel')('nonassign', "Expression '{0}' is non-assignable. Element: {1}",