Issue with using ng-transclude

[areel]

I am in the process of migrating from
AngularJS 1.3.16 to 1.4.8
AnbularUI-Bootstrap 0.13.0 to 0.14.3

and I have come across the following issue:

I have a directive that dynamically creates tabs, transcluding html for each tab.

The application usage:

<dynamic-tabs >
        <grid ptp-id="{{tab.id}}"></grid> 
</dynamic-tabs>

the tab variable above is created via an ng-repeat expression within the directive

The directive dynamic-tab template is as follows:

<div class="dynamic-tabs">
    <tabset>
        <tab ng-repeat="tab in vm.tabs track by $index"
                active="tab.isCurrentTab"
                select="selected(tab)">
            <tab-heading>
                <span>{{ tab.name }}</span>
             </tab-heading>
            <div  ng-transclude  ng-if="tab.isCurrentTab"></div>
        </tab>
    </tabset>
</div>

Prior to 0.13.2 the above works.

From 0.13.2 the tab variable within the application usage is no longer available and is undefined.

I believe the commit 2004757 where the use of the compile function was replaced with a linking function is the cause.

I have reverted that single change and the issue is resolved in my code and the unit tests in angular-ui/bootstrap did not break.
I took a look at creating a unit test to cover this particular use case of transclusion but it did not feel correct to add it in the existing test code, since it more integration and requires a directive created using tabs etc. We can take that off line.

I issued a PR #5160 which reverts that change, but while fine tuning this text realized the revert is not the answer due to it actually closing #4061 (which I hadn't noticed)

So the question becomes is this a bug or the new expected behaviour and if so any suggestions on how to achieve this behaviour.

Regards

Aidan

[wesleycho]

Can you post a reproduction in Plunker? This is to assist with debugging.

[areel]

Reproduced here. To see the issue change the ui-bootstrap version from 13.1 to 13.2.

[areel]

Hi

We are now considering upgrading to 1.3.

Curious as to the current thinking on this issue.

Regards

Aidan