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AngularJS - Table Paging Directive

24 Jun 2013

In this post and the next one I will show you how to write a directive that adds paging to your table using AngularJS.
Thanks to AngularJS great structure, all code is reusable and activated
as easily as adding a class!

DISCLAIMER: I am not an AngularJS expert. All my examples can probably
be easily improved. However this is a great tutorial to learn advanced
AngularJS programming as it gathers the knowledge of different threads
while adding my own.

Spec

For this step we will simply require a directive that adds some HTML
on the page and will set the grounds for the other features.
This directive should have:

In the following post we will use this directive’s data
to filter out the single page from the data list.

Creating The “Paging” Directive

Using our template for this post serie we declare the smart table directive in our JavaScript section like so

myApp.directive("paging", function(){  

        return {  
            // define a template with back/prev buttons, using functions I will define  
            // on the scope  
            template:'<div><button ng-disabled="!hasPrevious()" ng-click="onPrev()"> Previous </button> \{{start()}} - \{{end()}} out of \{{size()}} <button ng-disabled="!hasNext()" ng-click="onNext()"> Next </button><div ng-transclude=""></div> </div>',
            // Lets allow this tag to be defined as an "Attribute","Element" or "Class".  
            restrict:'AEC',   
            transclude:true, // transclude means we allow the tag to have a body  
            // next we define the scope   
            // the "=" sign means these scope variables will be available  
            // from the parent scope. For "currentPage" we will use   
            // attribute "current-page='myCurrentPage'" - where "myCurrentPage"  
            // is the variable on the parent scope. This means we can programatically  
            // change the value from the parent scope. Isn't this great?  
            // This also means multiple tables will be able to share the same  
            // paging.   
            scope:{   
                'currentPage':'=',  
                'pageSize':'=',  
                'data':'='  

            },  
            link:function($scope, element, attrs){  

             // size of entire data  
                $scope.size = function(){  
                    return $scope.data.length;  
                };  

                // end of the page  
                $scope.end = function(){  
                    return $scope.start() + $scope.pageSize;  
                };  

                // start of page  
                $scope.start = function(){  
                    return $scope.currentPage * $scope.pageSize;  
                };  

                // number of page - default to 0  
                $scope.page = function(){  
                    return !!$scope.size() ? ( $scope.currentPage + 1 ) : 0;  
                };  

                // do we have another page?  
                $scope.hasNext = function(){  
                    return $scope.page() < ( $scope.size() /  $scope.pageSize )  ;  
                };  

                // what to do if "next" button is pressed.  
                $scope.onNext = function(){  
                    $scope.currentPage = parseInt($scope.currentPage) + 1;  
                };  

                // do we have a previous page?  
                $scope.hasPrevious = function(){  
                    return !!$scope.currentPage;  
                } ;  

                // what to do if "prev" button is clicked  
                $scope.onPrev = function(){  
                    $scope.currentPage=$scope.currentPage-1;  
                };  

                // define default values for scope variables.   
                try{  
                    if ( angular.isDefined($scope.data) ){  
                        $scope.data = [];  
                    }  
                    if ( angular.isDefined($scope.currentPage) ){  
                        $scope.currentPage = 0;  
                    }  
                    if ( angular.isDefined($scope.pageSize) ) {  
                        $scope.pageSize = 10;  
                    }  
                }catch(e){ console.log(e);}  
            }  

        }  

});    

The outcome of the code above includes:

Using Our New Directive

To use our new directive, all we need to do is modify the HTML like so:

<paging table-data="data" current-page="dataCurrentPage" page-size="dataPageSize">...
    <table> </table>
</paging>

In this example, I decided to use the directive as an element.
I left the rest of the HTML as it was within the new “paging” tag.

What We Have So Far

If you run the code right now, you will see the next/prev buttons.
If you click them, you see the summary is modified.
However, the table remains the same.
In the next post, we will add a filter called “pagingFilter” that will slice a page from the data.

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