How to make ng-repeat filter out duplicate results

Question

I\'m running a simple ng-repeat over a JSON file and want to get category names. There are about 100 objects, each belonging to a category - but there are only

Answer 1

I decided to extend @thethakuri's answer to allow any depth for the unique member. Here's the code. This is for those who don't want to include the entire AngularUI module just for this functionality. If you're already using AngularUI, ignore this answer:

app.filter('unique', function() {
    return function(collection, primaryKey) { //no need for secondary key
      var output = [], 
          keys = [];
          var splitKeys = primaryKey.split('.'); //split by period


      angular.forEach(collection, function(item) {
            var key = {};
            angular.copy(item, key);
            for(var i=0; i

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