rebind

[romanesko]

Is it possible to force refresh of bindonce item?

[dominicglenn]

I had this usecase just today actually.

By removing the following line: https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce/blob/master/bindonce.js#L170

And adding scope.bindonceController = bindonceController; to the following line: https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce/blob/master/bindonce.js#L188

I can call $scope.bindonceController.runBinders(); whenever I want to manually update the DOM. It would be really helpful if the code could be changed to support this.

[Pasvaz]

I'm sorry to let you wait, I have to push some updates, one of them includes the possibility to refresh the binders by user request, I think that would close this issue. I just need a bit of time (very rare thing right now for me) to clean it and push it.

[dominicglenn]

As a follow up to this; I'm guessing you're redoing a lot of the binders themselves here as well?

This like the bo-class binding, or the bo-if need modifying to add or remove elements in either case, not just do the positive effect or nothing? (I'm modifying it myself at the moment for this purpose exactly).

[dominicglenn]

Probably should; I'm just doing it at work atm and not sure how they'd feel about me doing that. But I'll change it on my own and try submit a PR.

[rileylark]

I also have this use case and suggested #50 . The API could be bo-rebind="whateverEventName". bo-rebind would listen $on $rootScope for whateverEventName and call bindonceController.runBinders() from @dominicglenn 's suggestion.

What do you all think? I'm going to work on this for my own project this week - would others like this api?

cc @Pasvaz

[Pasvaz]

Soon (I think this weekend) I'll publish two new directives, one is onewatcher and the other is bo-refresh-on, bo-refresh-on works exactly as you thought, it uses $on to listen on the channel declared in the attribute boRefreshOn and it runs the binders again. There is another way to achieve this result, in my experimental version I use also a setter to attach a refresh function to the scope, something like bo-refresh-with="refreshMe" so when you call $scope.refreshMe() bindonce runs the binders. If I can test it enough I could publish also bo-refresh-with, let's see.

[rileylark]

Perfect, that's exactly what I had in mind. Thanks! Let me know if you can use help either implementing or testing.

[Pasvaz]

thank you @rileylark, I appreciate it.

[rileylark]

I've got some huge $watches dragging me down and will need to start work on this soon. I'll be happy to offer a PR but don't want to redo work you've already done. @Pasvaz, do you have a branch in progress I can extend?

[Meligy]

Hey,

I love the idea of using events, and the idea of one watcher will make a huge appeal to many people.

Is this planned for any time soon?

Thanks a lot.

[Pasvaz]

I'll try to push my branch today, I'm sorry I can't do it as soon as I thought but I'm facing some deadlines.

[rileylark]

Hey, no worries, bindonce will save me a ton of time even without this feature. I'd appreciate seeing your branch for this issue even incomplete - I'm sure I'll at least learn about your architecture by seeing where you've started, and maybe I can even help finish the implementation!

[Pasvaz]

I pushed the branch rebind-debug https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce/blob/rebind-debug/bindonce.js , it works but it's still embrional, I need to test it extensively and to rewrite/clean the code. It uses the directive refresh-on="message" and one-watcher to refresh the binders. Feel free to play with it but don't use it in production.

[Pasvaz]

@rileylark it would be nice if you and the others could be test the rebind-debug branch extensively in order to evidentiate the bugs or memory leaks so I can change or confirm the way it works.

[rileylark]

Thanks a bunch - I played with it some this weekend and will have some serious time this week.

[rileylark]

Hah, I hadn't seen your last comment when I posted. Yes, I'll be happy to send you some of my tests. Is the new demo folder a good place to put new uses?

I didn't have angular set up in the same build setup that you have, so in my initial test page I just included it from the CDN.

[Pasvaz]

feel free to modify the demo as you want or to create new ones, that branch is supposed to be a work in progress so it is quite wild. At the moment, the first approach was to emulate angular and so to destruct and rebuild each bo-directive, the next step will be to improve it and reuse elements instead of removing them in order to speed up the whole process.

[rileylark]

@Pasvaz I just sent you a PR with a simple demo for bo-src and bo-style.

I am not sure that $broadcast and $emit are going to be sufficient for my project. I am making a slide editor, with infrequently-changing slides. Each slide is represented twice: once in a long list of all of the previews, and again in the main editor area.

These are sibling scopes, and each of my slides should have its own rebind-on event, so I think I would have to $emit the change up to $rootScope and then $broadcast them back down. Blegh!

I have an alternative idea to using the $scopes as event busses: a complementary bindonceNotify service that I can inject into any required code. My client code can call bindonceNotify('customUpdateEventName'), and your rebind-on api can register on a back end of the service. That way we can ignore the $scopes altogether, avoid muddying up the $on handlers, and have a kind of private channel for rebind notifications.

What do you think? I can submit another PR for this if you think it's a worthwhile direction to explore.

[rileylark]

I went ahead and sketched it out in #60

[bugwelle]

Any further progress on rebind? :) I need this in an app I'm currently developing on :)

[r3m0t]

@archer96 I've made an Angular fork that does this, it is at:

https://github.com/r3m0t/angular.js/tree/digest_limit

It is built at:

https://github.com/r3m0t/bower-angular tag: 1.2.14-build.local+sha.1289c58 or v1.2.15-build.local+sha.9660989

An example is at:

https://gist.github.com/r3m0t/9271790

Watch out, it works very differently from pasvaz.bindonce. You can use ng- for everything instead of bo-, but inside the new-once directive all the directives are affected.

[Pasvaz]

guys I'll complete it asap, right now I'm busy dealing with some deadlines. @archer96 could you test the rebind branch, it's not complete but some feedback could surely help.

[bugwelle]

Hello,

I tried using that branch but there is one tiny "bug" that is annoying. Firstly my code:

<body ng-controller="MainCtrl">
<button ng-click="AddItem()">Add Item</button>
<button ng-click="RemoveFirstItem()">Remove First Item</button>
<ul>
    <li ng-show="!items">Items are not loaded, yet!</li>
    <li ng-show="items && !items.length">No items available!</li>
    <li bindonce="items" refresh-on="'rinfresca'" ng-repeat="item in items">
        <span bo-text="item.title"></span><br>
        <span bo-text="item.description"></span>
    </li>
</ul>
</body>

here my javsacript code:

var app = angular.module('bindoncedebug', ['pasvaz.bindonce']);

app.controller('MainCtrl', function ($scope, $q, $timeout) {

var count = 0;

$scope.AddItem = function () {
    $scope.items.push({
        title: 'Item ' + (++count),
        description: 'this is item number ' + count
    });
    $scope.$broadcast('rinfresca');
};

$scope.RemoveFirstItem = function () {
    $scope.items.shift();
    $scope.$broadcast('rinfresca');
};

$timeout(function () {
    $scope.items = [];
}, 1500)

$timeout(function () {
    $scope.items = [
        {
            title: 'Item 1',
            description: 'this is item number 1'
        },
        {
            title: 'Item 2',
            description: 'this is item number 2'
        },
        {
            title: 'Item 3',
            description: 'this is item number 3'
        }
    ];
    count = $scope.items.length;
}, 3000)

});

Rebind works well when putting refresh-onand bindonce on ul but when putting it on li it get following error when trying to remove an element:

TypeError: Object #<HTMLLIElement> has no method 'removeWatcher'
    at HTMLLIElement.ctrl.destroy (file:///Users/__myName__/github/local/bindonce/bindonce.js:176:12)
    at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:27:208
    at r (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:7:386)
    at Object.$c.c [as handle] (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:27:190)
    at cc (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:23:426)
    at Da (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:23:57)
    at r.remove (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:140:169)
    at Object.R.(anonymous function) [as remove] (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:141:414)
    at Object.leave (https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:143:309)
    at https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.13/angular.min.js:187:25 

I'd like to use refresh-on on list elements as seen in this example.

Regards, Andre

[rajdeepg]

I am getting the same error as Andre when using https://github.com/Pasvaz/bindonce/blob/rebind-debug/bindonce.js

TypeError: Object # has no method 'removeWatcher' at HTMLSpanElement.ctrl.destroy (https://mosaic-local.autodesk.com/lib/bower_components/angular-bindonce/bindonce.js:176:12) at HTMLSpanElement.bK.event.dispatch (https://staticfqa.staging.autodesk360beta.com/static/1.r343.2.r3/portal/script/core.js:26:43787) at HTMLSpanElement.ce.handle (https://staticfqa.staging.autodesk360beta.com/static/1.r343.2.r3/portal/script/core.js:26:39970) at Object.bK.event.trigger (https://staticfqa.staging.autodesk360beta.com/static/1.r343.2.r3/portal/script/core.js:26:42801) at bK.fn.extend.triggerHandler (https://staticfqa.staging.autodesk360beta.com/static/1.r343.2.r3/portal/script/core.js:26:51165) at removePatch as remove at https://mosaic-local.autodesk.com/lib/mosaic/angularjs/directives/infiniteScroll.dir.js:23:46 at wrappedCallback (https://mosaic-local.autodesk.com/lib/bower_components/angular/angular.js:11033:81) at https://mosaic-local.autodesk.com/lib/bower_components/angular/angular.js:11119:26 at Scope.$eval (https://mosaic-local.autodesk.com/lib/bower_components/angular/angular.js:12045:28)

Pasvaz, any idea on when you think you will have some time to look into this issue?

Thanks,

Raj

[Pasvaz]

@rajdeepg, please try it now

[rajdeepg]

Hi Pasvaz,

I just tried the latest and no longer getting the 'removeWatcher' error but also not seeing my ng-repeat update it self.

Here is the code I am using: <div class="card selectable" data-ng-class="{ checked: storageItem.checked, last: storageItem.lastColumn}" data-bindonce="storageItems" data-refresh-on="'refreshStorageItemList'" data-ng-repeat="storageItem in storageItems" data-index="{{$index}}" data-file-name="{{storageItem.Name}}" data-mo-drag data-mo-drop="dropFiles(draggedItemIndex, droppedItemIndex)" data-ng-drag-multiple="{{ storageItem.checked }}" data-mo-hover data-mo-menu="getStandardActions" data-mo-menu-for="storageItem" data-mo-menu-on="contextmenu" data-mo-menu-title="{{ i18n.Actions }}">

In My controller: var index = $scope.storageItems.indexOf(items[0]); $scope.storageItems[index].Name = items[0].Name; $scope.$broadcast('refreshStorageItemList'); $scope.$apply();

I am updating the Name field in the item and hoping that it refreshes in my grid but it is not refreshing? Is there something I am doing wrong?

If you can share some sample code on how this should work that will be great?

Thanks,

Raj

[fidoboy]

+1 :) Following this interesting feature...

[dg192]

I'm using bo-text and bo-class, and can confirm refresh-on is working with 31148e7. Thanks, Pasvaz!

[shansubra]

I am trying to force refresh my table but its not refreshing. Can anyone please help me on how to do this?

HTML code:

<tbody bindonce="filteredItems" refresh-on="refreshTaskList" ng-repeat="task in filteredItems | orderBy:sortingOrder:reverse">
<tr>
 <td><span bo-bind="task.serviceTypeName | isEmpty : 'None'"></span></td>
  <td ><span bo-bind="task.percentageCompleted | isEmpty : 'Not Started'"></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

Controller code: $scope.$broadcast('refreshTaskList');

Please help me...

[trevordixon]

Exciting feature! Any help needed besides testing?

[jtomaszewski]

Yeah, that would be excellent! It would actually allow me to transform every single group of watchers to just one watcher. Tell us what you need and maybe we'll help you ;)

[matias-sandell]

Hi! Any idea when bo-refresh-on will be production ready?

[thynctank]

Awesome. Just came across this issue/feature while looking into other things... Can't wait for production-ready!

[fidoboy]

@dominicglenn : Your code for line 188: scope.bindonceController = bindonceController;seems to be wrong, scope is undefined. Can you verify it?

[dominicglenn]

@fidoboy I wrote that code ages ago when the bindonce code was very different from what it is now; I think they have a different way to of doing this now. If you still want to do it why don't you try binder.scope instead?

[Meligy]

Any idea where this feature has gone recently? Thanks a lot.

[fidoboy]

:smile: i'm counting the days… bind once directive is really amazing and having the rebind feature… it could be perfect!! I hope that this could be available soon…

[thynctank]

U know another way to sort of do this is to wrap your bindonce directive inside something else that will change, like a top-level object with infrequent watch triggers. When it does change, all the DOM children are refreshed, even if they are then "static" again after that.

[maruf89]

+1

[jtomaszewski]

In the meantime - check out this: https://github.com/pcw216/angular-watch-when . Seems like to be a complete solution for that problem! Haven't got time yet to check that in a real app, but looks interesting.

[johny]

+1

[Irto]

+1

[gindulis]

+1

[tateman66]

+1

[nadavsinai]

+1

[dipcore]

Take a look on this directive http://kent.doddsfamily.us/kcd-angular/#/kcd-recompile

[dipcore]

Here is my interpretation of 'kcd-recompile' directive (it uses angular 1.3 and broadcast events) http://jsbin.com/pigofojogo/2/edit?html,js,output

[mica16]

Is this feature currently under development? or is it advised to try alternative like kdc-recompile? I tried this latter with Angular 1.3, can't manage to make it work when wrapping an ng-repeat... Thanks :)

[trythrow]

+1 What happen to this? any idea when it will be available? Did anyone succeed with a workaround?

[jtomaszewski]

Well, I'll just recommend you switching to angular 1.3 and to plugins mentioned above, they work perfectly.