Angularjs $resource not working with an array returned from a REST API

Question

I am trying to learn angularjs, and have hit a block in trying to databind to an array returned from a Rest API. I have a simple azure api returning an array of person objec

Answer 1

The array you get back from the server isn't a clean array, but has some extra properties. That makes ng-repeat not show anything when you iterate over it using in.

You need a special iterator to go over the array from the server, which will ignore those extra properties. So extract the array data through forEach first, like this:

$scope.items = []
var response = $scope.svc.get();
angular.forEach(response, function(item) {
  $scope.items.push(item);
});

Then you can do