#Ignite UI directives for AngularJS (Preview) Use the directives found in igniteui-angular.js to use Ignite UI controls in AngularJS pages. Work with the running samples here.

#Requirements

• jQuery v1.7 and later
• AngularJS v1.0 and later
• Ignite UI 13.1 and later

Note: The Ignite UI Angular directives do not work with the Ignite UI ASP.NET MVC Helpers

#Building Build will produce an obfuscated and minified version of the src/igniteui-angular.js in the dist/igniteui-angular.min.js.
The build uses Grunt, so you need Node.js installed on your machine.
To build the project use the following steps:

1. Open a console in the folder where the igniteui-angular project is located
2. Run npm install
3. Run grunt build

#Getting Started

Page setup

In the page markup include the Ignite UI AngularJS directives file found in dist/igniteui-angular.min.js along with the Ignite UI scripts:

<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="angular.min.js"></script>

<script src="infragistics.core.js"></script>
<script src="infragistics.lob.js"></script>

<script src="igniteui-angular.min.js"></script>

Reference the igniteui-directives in your AngularJS module:

var sample_app = angular.module('igniteui-sample-app', ['igniteui-directives']);

Initializing controls

Controls can be initialized in two ways:

1. Markup Initialization: directly in an HTML page by using custom tags
2. Controller Initialization: a control placeholder is located in an HTML page, but its initialization options are located in the page controller

Markup Initialization

Custom tags

Each control implements a custom tag directive where the tag name is formed by splitting each capital letter in the control name with the - symbol (This naming convention follows the standard Angular normalization process).

Note: It is recommended to use closing tags (</ig-combo>) over the self-closing tags (<ig-combo/>), because the latter are known to make issues on some browsers (depending on the used document mode).

Examples:

Control Name	Tag
igCombo	<ig-combo>
igGrid	<ig-grid>
igDataChart	<ig-data-chart>
igDialog	<ig-dialog>
igDateEditor	<ig-date-editor>
igEditor	<ig-editor>
igMaskEditor	<ig-mask-editor>
igNumericEditor	<ig-numeric-editor>
igPercentEditor	<ig-percent-editor>
igTextEditor	<ig-text-editor>
igDatePicker	<ig-date-picker>
igTree	<ig-tree>
igMap	<ig-map>
igUpload	<ig-upload>
igVideoPlayer	<ig-video-player>

Configuring Control Options

Simple type control options (string, number, bool etc.) are configured as an attributes on the control element. The options follow the same naming convention logic as the tag name.

Examples:

Option	Markup
igGrid.options.localSchemaTransform	<ig-grid local-schema-transform="true">
igCombo.options.caseSensitive	<ig-combo case-sensitive="true">

Defining complex type control options (arrays & objects) are configured as a child elements of the main control.

Example:

<ig-grid>
	<features>
		<feature name="Filtering">
		</feature>
	</features>
</ig-grid>

Handling events

Binding to control events is done again with attributes. Event attribute names are prefixed with the prefix event- followed by the event name delimited with the - symbol. Once defined the attribute values corresponds to a function name in the scope so you can gain access to the events.

Examples:

Event	Markup
igGrid.events.dataBind	<ig-grid event-data-bind="dataBindHandler">
igCombo.events.textChanged	<ig-combo event-text-changed="textChangedHandler">
igDateEditor.events.keypress	<ig-date-editor event-keypress="keypressHandler">

Controller Initialization

Each control also implements a custom attribute directive where the attribute name is formed by splitting each capital letter in the control name with the - symbol (this naming convention follows the standard Angular normalization process) and the attribute value corresponds to the scope object holding the control options.

Examples:

Control	Markup
igCombo	<div id="combo" data-ig-combo="combo_options"></div>
igGrid	<table id="grid" data-ig-grid="grid_options"></table>
igDataChart	<div id="chart" data-ig-data-chart="data_chart_options"></div>
igDialog	<div id="dialog" data-ig-dialog="dialog_options"></div>
igDateEditor	<input id="dialog" data-ig-date-editor="date_editor_options"></input>
igEditor	<input id="editor" data-ig-editor="editor_options"></input>
igMaskEditor	<input id="editor" data-ig-mask-editor="mask_editor_options"></input>
igNumericEditor	<input id="editor" data-ig-numeric-editor="numeric_editor_options"></input>
igPercentEditor	<input id="editor" data-ig-percent-editor="precent_editor_options"></input>
igTextEditor	<input id="editor" data-ig-text-editor="text_editor_options"></input>
igDatePicker	<input id="editor" data-ig-date-picker="date_picker_options"></input>
igTree	<ul id="tree" data-ig-tree="tree_options"></ul>
igMap	<div id="map" data-ig-map="map_options"></div>
igUpload	<div id="upload" data-ig-upload="upload_options"></div>
igVideoPlayer	<div id="video" data-ig-video-player="video_options"></div>

Two-way Data Binding

The following controls currently support two-way data binding:

1. igGrid
2. igCombo
3. igEditors
4. igTree

Note: When using control API methods which modify the data source outside the Angular framework you need to explicitly call Scope.$apply() in order to see Angular view updated.

##Testing There are two kinds of tests in Igniteui-angular: Unit tests and End to End tests. All of them are written in Jasmine.

####Setup Simply do:

npm install

The command is preconfigured and it will also call bower install behind the scenes.

####Running Unit Tests The easiest way to run the unit tests is to use the npm script:

npm test

This will start the Karma test runner and execute the tests.

####End to end testing These tests are run with the Protractor test runner, it simulates interaction. So first the web server should be brought up:

npm start

So that Protractor can execute the tests against it. Starting the tests is done with:

npm run protractor

Note: Protractor is built upon WebDriver and this should be installed:

npm run update-webdriver

This will download and install the latest version of the stand-alone WebDriver tool.

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