$observe multiple attributes at the same time and fire callback only once

Question

I wonder is it possible to execute some callback only once after evaluation all (or only some) attributes of directive (without isolated scope). Attributes are really great to p

Answer 1

I resolved the exact same problem that I had using another approach, though I was looking for different ideas. While cmw's suggestions is working, I compared its performance against mine, and saw that the $watch method is called far too many times, so I decided to keep things the way I had implemented.

I added $observe calls for both variables I wanted to track and bound them to a debounce call. Since they both are modified with very little time difference, both $observe methods trigger the same function call, which gets executed after a short delay:

var debounceUpdate = _.debounce(function () {
    setMinAndMaxValue(attrs['minFieldName'], attrs['maxFieldName']);
}, 100);

attrs.$observe('minFieldName', function () {
    debounceUpdate();
});

attrs.$observe('maxFieldName', function () {
    debounceUpdate();
});