Angularjs map array to another array

Question

I have two arrays, Users and Employments like so:

Users       = [{id:1, name: \"ryan\"}, {id:2, name:\"Julie\"}]
Employment         


        

Answer 1

If you want the employee name to get displayed based on id, the simplest way is just pass that id to a function and return the name, like as shown below

Working Demo

html

    
{{getEmployeeName(employment.user_id)}}
    

script

var app = angular.module('myApp', []);
app.controller('ArrayController', function ($scope) {
    $scope.Users = [{
        id: 1,
        name: "ryan"
    }, {
        id: 2,
        name: "Julie"
    }];

    $scope.Employments = [{
        user_id: 1,
        title: "manager"
    }, {
        user_id: 2,
        title: "Professor"
    }];

    $scope.getEmployeeName = function (empId) {
        for (var i = 0; i < $scope.Users.length; i++) {
            if ($scope.Users[i].id === empId) {
                return $scope.Users[i].name;
            }
        };
    };
});

UPDATE 2

If you want to embed the User array in the Employments array, try the following stuff

$scope.Users = [{id: 1, name: "ryan"}, {id: 2, name: "Julie"}];

$scope.Employments = [{user_id: 1, title: "manager"}, 
                      {user_id: 2, title: "Professor"}
                     ];

code for flattening Employments array by adding User properties

angular.forEach($scope.Users, function (user, userIndex) {
    angular.forEach($scope.Employments, function (employee, employeeIndex) {
        if (employee.user_id === user.id) {
            employee.name = user.name;
        }
    });
});

Output

$scope.Employments = [ { user_id: 1, title: "manager", name: "ryan" }, 
                       { user_id: 2, title: "Professor", name: "Julie" } 
                     ]

Working Demo

UPDATE 3

Code for making a nested employee structure like as shown below from $scope.Users and $scope.Employments

$scope.employees = [];
angular.forEach($scope.Employments, function (employee, employeeIndex) {
    var employeeObject = {};
    employeeObject.title = employee.title;
    angular.forEach($scope.Users, function (user, userIndex) {
        if (employee.user_id === user.id) {
            employeeObject.user = user;
        }
    });
    $scope.employees.push(employeeObject);
});

Output

[ { title: "manager", user: { "id": 1, "name": "ryan" } }, 
  { title: "Professor", user: { "id": 2, "name": "Julie" } } 
]

Working Demo