filter and orderBy should also work with objects in ngRepeat

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filter and orderBy should work with objects within ngRepeat. My use case for this, I have already written recently in #1286, but the issue only refers to oderBy and has previously been rejected seemingly because no concrete use case has been found for this.

Here is my use case where I absolutely need an object instead of an array:

I'm currently developing a real-time browser game with AngularJS, in which I have a room list. To update individual entries in this list, the server sends a notification with the new version of this single entry when it changes. Thus, a single entry can be by ID, provided by the server, updated, I need to use an object instead of an array.

I would like to sort these entries with AngularJS, which, however, currently not working. I would be happy if this feature will be implemented soon. Otherwise, I had to write such a function myself, which I however come back in the boilerplate code hell.

A support of objects in filter and orderBy of AngularJS for me would be really helpful as I would otherwise have to try myself to implement such a function.

[petebacondarwin]

This is easy to fix using a toArray filter.

Here is a solution that uses @finalclass's toArray filter (remembering that this will not work on IE8): http://jsfiddle.net/z8ME5/

Here is a version that uses toArray but actually modifies the original object (and will work on IE8):
http://jsfiddle.net/JHL6X/

[petebacondarwin]

And here is a version with a filter: http://jsfiddle.net/75LLk/

[petebacondarwin]

I have created a module that provides the toArray filter for helping with these situations

http://ngmodules.org/modules/angular-toArrayFilter

[mohsen1]

I am having a problem with lack of built in orderBy support in Angular. The toArray is not working for me because it makes angular re-render the entire array which looks bad in my case because I want to update my document per kepress.

It would be nice if I could sort my object values without converting it to an array.