Filtering on object map rather than array in AngularJS

Question

Given a controller with a $scope property that is an object with other properties rather than an array like below, how should I filter the ng-repeat set?

Answer 1

I made an example on how to not change your object to an Array. I think this answers the question more correct.

I had the same problem that i could not search in a Object.

http://jsbin.com/acagag/223/edit

angular.module('filters',['utils'])
  .filter('friendFilter', function(utils){

    return function(input, query){
      if(!query) return input;
      var result = {};

      angular.forEach(input, function(friendData, friend){
        if(utils.compareStr(friend, query) ||
           utils.compareStr(friendData.phone, query))
          result[friend] = friendData;          
      });
      return result;
    };
  });

So just instead of returning a array you return a object.

Hope this helps someone!