javascript - How to call one filter from another filter in angular.js

Question

I have a filter, linkifyStuff, in which I want some variables processed using another filter. I can't figure out the syntax to call one filter from another.

I know about filter chaining – that's not what I want to do. I want to apply a filter to a local variable in linkifyStuff filter, not to its input or output.

I would expect something like the folowing to work, but $filter('filtername') is not the correct syntax apparently.

module.filter('sanitizeStuff', function() {
    // ...
})

module.filter('prettifyStuff', function() {
    // ...
})

module.filter('linkifyStuff', function($filter) {
    return function(text) {
        // ...
        // ...
        return $filter('sanitizeStuff')(foo) + ' whatever ' + $filter('prettifyStuff')(bar)
    }
})

I could write a plain js functions for sanitizeStuff and sanitizeStuff and call that function from these filters but this seems wrong. Any advice on how to do it the angular way?

Thank you.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20715726/how-to-call-one-filter-from-another-filter-in-angular-js

Answer 1

Inject your filters into linkifyStuff using <filterName>Filter syntax. Like this:

app.filter('linkifyStuff', function(sanitizeStuffFilter,prettifyStuffFilter) {
    return function(text) {

        return sanitizeStuffFilter(text) + ' whatever ' + prettifyStuffFilter(text);
    }
});

DEMO