Angularjs: inject required directive-controller into the controller instead of the link function

Question

Normal use cases in angular

If you have a parent directive and a child directive you create methods in the controller of the parent directive and re

Answer 1

Actually there is another way that is less verbose and is used by the angular ngModel itself:

var parentForm = $element.inheritedData('$formController') || ....

Basically they use the fact that the controllers are stored into the data property of the directive dom element.

Still a bit wired, but less verbose and easier to understand.

I don't see a reason why you cannot pass the required controllers into the injection locals for the directive controller.