JSON Stringify on Arrays and Objects

[kirstein]

Is there some specific reason why the ui-ace throws an exception when we are dealing with array or object types? At the first glance it seems perfectly safe to just stringify those types. Am I missing something?

Just wanted to hear your opinion about stringifying those before I submitted a PR.

[douglasduteil]

Is there some specific reason why the ui-ace throws an exception when we are dealing with array or object types?

Talking about the error ui-ace cannot use an object or an array as a model ? For me it's because you're not supposed to use those types of values on the Document.setValue method. And like the ngModel is only reflecting the editor content it must be a string.

At the first glance it seems perfectly safe to just stringify those types. Am I missing something? Just wanted to hear your opinion about stringifying those before I submitted a PR.

I really think that it's a uncommon issue that isn't supposed to be directly allowed. Ace is just a code editor. It gives and takes code as text.

[diegopamio]

There will be nice to have it for cases where you want to "edit" in the ace editor code an attribute of your model in JSON format.

[diegopamio]

What I've done is to have a different scope attribute, which gets updated by watching the model, and it's the string representation of the object.

$scope.$watch('', function (newValue) { $scope.<your model's>source = JSON.stringify(newValue, null, 2); }, true);