Angularjs watch for change in parent scope

Question

I\'m writing a directive and I need to watch the parent scope for a change. Not sure if I\'m doing this the preferred way, but its not working with the following code:

Answer 1

If you're looking for watching a parent scope variable inside a child scope, you can add true as second argument on your $watch. This will trigger your watch every time your object is modified

$scope.$watch("searchContext", function (ctx) {
                ...
            }, true);