Question

I’ve got an ng-include and ng-controller within an ng-repeat, and IE randomly craps itself when it sees the child instance object of the repeat:

inside main.html

<section ng-repeat="panel in sidepanels">
  <h2 class="twelve columns">
    <span class="twelve">
      <i class="icon {{panel.icon}}"></i> <!-- resolves properly -->
      {{panel.controller.name}} <!-- empty -->
    </span>
  </h2>
  <div
    ng-include src="'views/'+panel.controller.name.toLowerCase()+'.html'"
    ng-controller="panel.controller"
  ></div>
</section>

inside controllers.js

function Main($scope) {
  …
  $scope.sidepanels = [
    {
      "controller": Alerts,
      "icon": "icon-warning-sign"
    }
  ];
  …
}

function Alerts($scope,WebSocket) {
  $scope.alerts = [];
  WebSocket.on('…', function(data) { … });
  WebSocket… //WebSocket is a Service
}

Except instead of throwing an error in console, it just silently ignores the fact that it sometimes can’t resolve panel. I only noticed this was the case because I saw a failed GET on views/.html.

I checked MSDN, and supposedly IE supports the name property.

Answer 1

The property name doesn’t work very well for functions on IE.

You can use the following snippet to retrieve a function’s name (as described here):

func.toString().match(/^function ([^(\s]+)/)[1]

Add a function to your Main controller that creates the template path, like this:

$scope.getTemplatePath= function(controller) {
    return 'views/' + angular.lowercase(controller.toString().match(/^function ([^(\s]+)/)[1] + '.html');    
};

And on the HTML:

<div ng-include="getTemplatePath(panel.controller)" ng-controller="panel.controller"></div>

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bmleite/faGRk/