Watch controller model value from inside directive

Question

I am trying to have angular watch the $viewValue of a controller from inside a directive.

fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dkrotts/TfTr5/5/

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Answer 1

Wanted to add: in 1.2.x, with isolated scope, the above wont work. http://jsfiddle.net/TfTr5/23/

A workaround I came up with was using the fact that $watch also accepts a function, so you can access your controller using that.

scope.$watch(
    function(){return controller.$viewValue},
    function(newVal, oldVal){
        //code
    }
)

Working fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/TfTr5/24/

If anyone has an alternative, I would gladly welcome it!