The ngInit directive allows you to evaluate an expression in the current scope.

This directive can be abused to add unnecessary amounts of logic into your templates. There are only a few appropriate uses of ngInit, such as for aliasing special properties of ngRepeat, as seen in the demo below; and for injecting data via server side scripting. Besides these few cases, you should use controllers rather than ngInit to initialize values on a scope.

Note: If you have assignment in ngInit along with a filter, make sure you have parentheses to ensure correct operator precedence:

<div ng-init="test1 = ($index | toString)"></div>

Directive Info

This directive executes at priority level 450.

Usage

as attribute:
```
<ANY
  ng-init="expression">
...
</ANY>
```

as CSS class:

<ANY class="ng-init: expression;"> ... </ANY>

Arguments

Param	Type	Details
ngInit	expression	Expression to eval.

Example

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<script>
  angular.module('initExample', [])
    .controller('ExampleController', ['$scope', function($scope) {
      $scope.list = [['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']];
    }]);
</script>
<div ng-controller="ExampleController">
  <div ng-repeat="innerList in list" ng-init="outerIndex = $index">
    <div ng-repeat="value in innerList" ng-init="innerIndex = $index">
       <span class="example-init">list[ {{outerIndex}} ][ {{innerIndex}} ] = {{value}};</span>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

it('should alias index positions', function() {
  var elements = element.all(by.css('.example-init'));
  expect(elements.get(0).getText()).toBe('list[ 0 ][ 0 ] = a;');
  expect(elements.get(1).getText()).toBe('list[ 0 ][ 1 ] = b;');
  expect(elements.get(2).getText()).toBe('list[ 1 ][ 0 ] = c;');
  expect(elements.get(3).getText()).toBe('list[ 1 ][ 1 ] = d;');
});