I can across this very useful angular filter. I wanted to alter it so it removes any items that aren't explicitly filtered for. Right now if any key has a property which isn't recognized it ignores they key entirely. Essentially I want items filtered out if a key's property isn't present. For instance if $scope.searchName doesn't match it should be removed by the filter.
I got the filter here. https://stackoverflow.com/a/21169596/2292822
<div ng-repeat="item in filtered = (items | filterMultiple:queryBy)>
Here is the relevant scope variables and filter
$scope.queryBy = {name:$scope.searchName, y1:$scope.selectedYear,y2:$scope.selectedYear,y3:$scope.selectedYear,y4:$scope.selectedYear};
myApp.filter('filterMultiple',['$filter',function ($filter) {return function (items, keyObj) {
var filterObj = {
data:items,
filteredData:[],
applyFilter : function(obj,key){
var fData = [];
if (this.filteredData.length == 0)
this.filteredData = this.data;
if (obj){
var fObj = {};
if (!angular.isArray(obj)){
fObj[key] = obj;
fData = fData.concat($filter('filter')(this.filteredData,fObj));
} else if (angular.isArray(obj)){
if (obj.length > 0){
for (var i=0;i<obj.length;i++){
if (angular.isDefined(obj[i])){
fObj[key] = obj[i];
fData = fData.concat($filter('filter')(this.filteredData,fObj));
}
}
}
}
if (fData.length > 0){
this.filteredData = fData;
}
}
}
};
if (keyObj){
angular.forEach(keyObj,function(obj,key){
filterObj.applyFilter(obj,key);
});
}
return filterObj.filteredData;}}]);