Access index of the parent ng-repeat from child ng-repeat

Question

I want to use the index of the parent list (foos) as an argument to a function call in the child list (foos.bars).

I found a post where someone recommends using $par

Answer 1

According to ng-repeat docs http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:ngRepeat, you can store the key or array index in the variable of your choice. (indexVar, valueVar) in values

so you can write

  

    

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One level up is still quite clean with $parent.$index but several parents up, things can get messy.

Note: $index will continue to be defined at each scope, it is not replaced by fIndex.