ngOptions does not populate options through selectCtrl

[Delagen]

When i use ng-repeat I can check existense of ngModel value in selected items through selectCtrl.hasOption(value)
When i use ng-options this method is unusable because optionsMap is not populated.

[caitp]

Hi, what you're describing sounds like an issue in your own code rather than angular, since angular doesn't provide a "selectCtrl", and doesn't have anything to do with populating an optionsMap.

Please provide a reproduction (http://jsbin.com, http://plunkr.co) more clearly showing the issue you're having, so that we can determine if there's a bug or not.

[Delagen]

http://jsbin.com/buvowimipale/1/edit?html,js,output

Try to change selected value in to select and view the console output

[Delagen]

I think selectCtrl must be used in all cases, but it use only in singleMode

      if (optionsExp) setupAsOptions(scope, element, ngModelCtrl);
      else if (multiple) setupAsMultiple(scope, element, ngModelCtrl);
      else setupAsSingle(scope, element, ngModelCtrl, selectCtrl);

Or you can supply any other solution for check if model value is from options list?
Write code in every controller to supply correct value to ngModel is not elegant.

[caitp]

I see what you're saying

[Delagen]

When ngModel isn't contains key from options it selects empty option, which may be predefined as:

<select ng-model="..." ng-options="...">
<option value="">empty</option>
</select>

but value in ngModel stay initial and not updated to undefined or something like undefined
So chosen empty option but in ngModel something outside list. So needed method of determine that user choosed option from list.