edit: I made adjustments to the code based on stevuu's recommendation and included a plunkr link here
Currently, my goal is to make a child directive invoke a method (resolve) through another directive all the way up to a parent directive. However, I am struggling to pinpoint the issue with my approach.
The main problem at the moment appears to be that even though resolve() is being called as expected upon clicking, 'selected' remains undefined.
Here is the HTML structure:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Angular: directive using & - jsFiddle demo</title>
<script type='text/javascript' src='//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js'></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/result-light.css">
<script type='text/javascript' src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.7/angular.min.js"></script>
<style type='text/css'>
</style>
</head>
<body ng-app="myApp">
<div grand-parent>
<span>selected: {{text}}</span>
<div parent resolve="resolve"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And here is the JavaScript code:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);
myApp.directive('grandParent', function() {
return {
scope:{
resolve: "&"
},
link: function($scope, $element) {
$scope.resolve = function(selected){
$scope.text = selected
}
}
};
});
myApp.directive('parent', function(){
return{
scope: {
resolve: "&"
},
template: "<div child resolve='resolve'></div>"
};
});
myApp.directive('child', function() {
return {
scope: {
resolve: "&"
},
template: "<div>Click me!</div>",
link: function($scope, $element) {
$element.on("click", function(){
$scope.$apply(function(){
$scope.resolve({selected: "Yahoo!!"});
});
});
}
};
});