refactor($compile): move setting of controller data to single location

Author: jbedard

src/ng/compile.js

@@ -2086,17 +2086,7 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
             controller = attrs[directive.name];
           }
 
-          var controllerInstance = $controller(controller, locals, true, directive.controllerAs);
-
-          // For directives with element transclusion the element is a comment,
-          // but jQuery .data doesn't support attaching data to comment nodes as it's hard to
-          // clean up (http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8335).
-          // Instead, we save the controllers for the element in a local hash and attach to .data
-          // later, once we have the actual element.
-          elementControllers[directive.name] = controllerInstance;
-          if (!hasElementTranscludeDirective) {
-            $element.data('$' + directive.name + 'Controller', controllerInstance.instance);
-          }
+          elementControllers[directive.name] = $controller(controller, locals, true, directive.controllerAs);
         }
         return elementControllers;
       }
@@ -2146,12 +2136,13 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
           }
         }
 
-        // Initialize bindToController bindings
+        // Initialize controllers
         for (var name in elementControllers) {
           var controllerDirective = controllerDirectives[name];
           var controller = elementControllers[name];
           var bindings = controllerDirective.$$bindings.bindToController;
 
+          // Initialize bindToController bindings
           if (controller.identifier && bindings) {
             removeControllerBindingWatches =
               initializeDirectiveBindings(controllerScope, attrs, controller.instance, bindings, controllerDirective);
@@ -2162,11 +2153,14 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
             // If the controller constructor has a return value, overwrite the instance
             // from setupControllers
             controller.instance = controllerResult;
-            $element.data('$' + controllerDirective.name + 'Controller', controllerResult);
             removeControllerBindingWatches && removeControllerBindingWatches();
             removeControllerBindingWatches =
               initializeDirectiveBindings(controllerScope, attrs, controller.instance, bindings, controllerDirective);
           }
+
+          // Store controllers on the $element data
+          // For transclude comment nodes this will be a noop and will be done at transclusion time
+          $element.data('$' + controllerDirective.name + 'Controller', controllerResult);
         }
 
         // PRELINKING