Access sub-attribute via dot notation ("address.street")

[Xennis]

Hey,

my API returns data in the format (extract only):

[
        {
            "id": 1,
            "address": {
                "street": "Heidberg",
                 "postal_code": "75385"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": 2,
            "address": {
                "street": "Heinrich-Böll-Str.",
                "postal_code": "70707"
            }
        },
        ...
]

How can I access for instance the street attribute? It would be nice, if I could access it directly by nga.field('address.street'), but that does not seems to work. Of course I could define the field as template field and write a directive. But when I've many of such fields, that would not be so nice. Or is there another, simple way?

[karantan]

I think this is what you are looking for:

app.config(function(RestangularProvider) {
    RestangularProvider.addElementTransformer('books', function(element) {
        for (var key in element.values) {
            element[key] = element.values[key];
        }

        return element;
    });
});

I copy paste this from the documentation

[jpetitcolas]

Indeed, we can do it currently the way @karantan suggested. ng-admin doesn't support the dot notation. But that's indeed a good idea. I keep the issue opened to not forget it. :)

[fzaninotto]

Related to #68 and #390

[fzaninotto]

Good news: that's now possible in the master branch, thanks to #549 being merged.