Using objects in <ui-select-choices repeat="">

[blowsie]

Forgive me if this has already been asked, I couldn't find a ticket for it.

I'm migrating from ui-select2, which allowed me to use objects as my data for example:

var data = {
    'Adam': {
        age: 10,
        location: 'UK'
    }
}

HTML
<select data-ng-options="value as key for (key, value) in data">

How can I use an object as my data in ui-select?
I tried data-repeat="name in data" but got [ui.select:items] Expected an array but got {"Adam"...

[Andrewpk]

👍trying to find information on the same thing right now.

[blowsie]

@Andrewpk did you manage to figure out a solution? Changing the object to an array is a last resort for me for performance reasons.

[Andrewpk]

I just ended up switching to angular-chosen which supports both arrays and objects as data sources.

On Jun 3, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Sam Blowes notifications@github.com wrote:

@Andrewpk did you manage to figure out a solution? Changing the object to an array is a last resort for me for performance reasons.

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[akotlar]

Agreed, I think this is a major limitation. The source clearly expects items to be in the

"item in array" with an optional track by: see line 1774

var match = expression.match(/^\s_(?:([\s\S]+?)\s+as\s+)?([\S]+?)\s+in\s+([\s\S]+?)(?:\s+track\s+by\s+([\s\S]+?))?\s_$/);

This can be changed to

var match = expression.match(/^\s_(?:([\s\S]+?)\s+as\s+)?([\S]+?)\s+._\s+in\s+([\s\S]+?)(?:\s+track\s+by\s+([\s\S]+?))?\s*$/);

and will pick up matches, but further modifications are needed in order to return items, haven't looked into it any further.

It wold be really useful to allow standard ng-options syntax; this seems like a major limitation.

[dimirc]

PR #1208 should resolve this