Callback function inside directive attr defined in different attr

ajax, angularjs, angularjs-directive, javascript

Solution

So what seems like the best way is using the isolated scope as suggested by ProLoser

app.directive('mySave', function($http) {
   return {
      scope: {
        callback: '&mySaveCallback'
      }
      link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
        element.on("click", function() {
            $http.post('/save', scope.$parent.data).success(returnedData) {
                // callback defined on my utils service here

                scope.callback(); // fires alert
            }
        });
      }
   }
});

For passing parameters back to controller do this

[11:28] <revolunet> you have to send named parameters 
[11:28] <revolunet> eg my-attr="callback(a, b)" 
[11:29] <revolunet> in the directive: scope.callback({a:xxx, b:yyy})

Problem

So I have this directive called say, `mySave`, it's pretty much just this ``` app.directive('mySave', function($http) { return function(scope, element, attrs) { element.bind("click", function() { $http.post('/save', scope.data).success(returnedData) { // callback defined on my utils service here // user defined callback here, from my-save-callback perhaps? } }); } }); ``` the element itself looks like this ``` <button my-save my-save-callback="callbackFunctionInController()">save</button> ``` callbackFunctionInController is for now just ``` $scope.callbackFunctionInController = function() { alert("callback"); } ``` when I `console.log()` `attrs.mySaveCallback` inside my-save directive, it just gives me a string `callbackFunctionInController()`, I read somewhere that I should $parse this and it would be fine, so I tried to `$parse(attrs.mySaveCallback)` which gave me back some function, but hardly the one I was looking for, it gave me back ``` function (a,b){return m(a,b)} ``` What am I doing wrong? Is this approach flawed from the beginning?

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