How to trigger a method when Angular is done adding scope updates to the DOM?

Question

I am looking for a way to execute code when after I add changes to a $scope variable, in this case $scope.results. I need to do this in order to call some legacy code that r

Answer 1

I forked your fiddle. http://jsfiddle.net/xGCmp/7/

I added a directive called emit-when. It takes two parameters. The event to be emitted and the condition that has to be met for the event to be emitted. This works because when the link function is executed in the directive, we know that the element has been rendered in the DOM. My solution is to emit an event when the last item in the ng-repeat has been rendered.

If we had an all Angular solution, I would not recommend doing this. It is kind of hacky. But, it might be an okey solution for handling the type of legacy code that you mention.

var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);

myApp.controller("myController", ['$scope', function($scope){
    var resultsToLoad = [
        {id: 1, name: "one"},
        {id: 2, name: "two"},
        {id: 3, name: "three"}
    ];

    function doneAddingToDom() {
        console.log(document.getElementById('renderedList').children.length);
    }

    $scope.results = [];

    $scope.loadResults = function(){
        $scope.results = resultsToLoad;
        // If run doneAddingToDom here, we will find 0 list elements in the DOM. Check console.
        doneAddingToDom();
    }

    // If we run on doneAddingToDom here, we will find 3 list elements in the DOM.
    $scope.$on('allRendered', doneAddingToDom);
}]);

myApp.directive("emitWhen", function(){
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            var params = scope.$eval(attrs.emitWhen),
                event = params.event,
                condition = params.condition;
            if(condition){
                scope.$emit(event);
            }
        }
    }
});

angular.bootstrap(document, ['myApp']);