One of the most annoying parts of Angular is that they want ALL the initial setup to be done through an HTTP call. Since in my case the first call is to lasso, this adds another "silly" step to the process, or you have to come up with other way of dealing with initial values (i.e. injecting them).

Using ng-init is "bad" or even worse! This is based on the fact that it is never quite clear when it persists.

I came across a directive (see below)that solves this for initial input values (by compiling them into the scope)

with the following use

<input type="hidden" name="report_id" id="report_id" ng-model="report.report_id" ng-init="100" value="100" initial-value>

This makes all nice with the world! AND keeps you in the Angular police good graces!

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..directive('initialValue', function() {
return{
restrict: 'A',
controller: ['$scope', '$element', '$attrs', '$parse', function($scope, $element, $attrs, $parse){

var getter, setter, val, tag;
tag = $element[0].tagName.toLowerCase();

val = $attrs.initialValue || $element.val();
if(tag === 'input'){
if($element.attr('type') === 'checkbox'){
val = $element[0].checked ? true : undefined;
} else if($element.attr('type') === 'radio'){
val = ($element[0].checked || $element.attr('selected') !== undefined) ? $element.val() : undefined;
}
}

if($attrs.ngModel){
getter = $parse($attrs.ngModel);
setter = getter.assign;
setter($scope, val);
}
}]
}})



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