How do I set the value property in AngularJS' ng-options?

Question

Here is what seems to be bothering a lot of people (including me).

When using the ng-options directive in AngularJS to fill in the options for a &

Answer 1

It is always painful for developers to with ng-options. For example: Getting an empty/blank selected value in the select tag. Especially when dealing with JSON objects in ng-options, it becomes more tedious. Here I have done some exercises on that.

Objective: Iterate array of JSON objects through ng-option and set selected first element.

Data:

someNames = [{"id":"1", "someName":"xyz"}, {"id":"2", "someName":"abc"}]

In the select tag I had to show xyz and abc, where xyz must be selected without much effort.

HTML:

    <select class="form-control" name="test" style="width:160px"    ng-options="name.someName for name in someNames" ng-model="testModel.test" ng-selected = "testModel.test = testModel.test || someNames[0]">
</select>

By above code sample, you might get out of this exaggeration.

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