An AngularJS Directive for creating a table using the Google Visualization API

google-table-directive.js

/*
I'm converting an existing web-app to angular. We made extensive use of the
Google Visualization library in the past. It's a powerful, although
complicated API, so I was anxious to get it wrapped up in angular. This
populates a table with data returned from a custome service 'Account'
*/

'use strict';

/* Directives */

(function () {
  var app = angular.module('googleVisualization.directives', []);

  app.directive('googleTable', ['$parse', function($parse) {
    var tableEvents = 'select page sort ready';

    return function(scope, element, attrs) {
      scope.$watch(attrs.table, function(value) {
        if(!value)
          return;

        var options = angular.extend({}, scope.$eval(attrs.options));

        var table = new google.visualization.Table(element[0]);
        var data = new google.visualization.DataTable(value.data);
        var view = new google.visualization.DataView(data);
        table.draw(view, options);

        var model = $parse(attrs.model);

        //Set scope variable for the map
        model.assign(scope, {
          'table' : table,
          'data' : data,
          'view' : view,
        });

        bindTableEvents(scope, tableEvents, table, element);
      });
    };
  }]);

  // inspired by angular-ui's directive for google maps
  function bindTableEvents(scope, eventsStr, googleObject, element) {
    angular.forEach(eventsStr.split(' '), function (eventName) {
      var $event = { type: 'table-' + eventName };

      google.visualization.events.addListener(googleObject, eventName, function (evt) {
        element.triggerHandler(angular.extend({}, $event, evt));

        //We create an $apply if it isn't happening. we need better support for this
        //We don't want to use timeout because tons of these events fire at once,
        //and we only need one $apply
        if (!scope.$$phase) 
          scope.$apply();
        
      });
    });
  }
})();

/* Controller */

angular.module('myApp').controller('TableTestCtrl', function ($scope, Account) {
  $scope.tableModel = {};

  $scope.tableOptions = {
    allowHTML: true,
    showRowNumber: true                               
  };

  $scope.account = Account.get({accountID : 2}, function(account) {
    // placeholder
  });

  $scope.$watch('tableModel', function() {
    if (!$.isEmptyObject($scope.tableModel)) {
      console.log('table initialized');
    }
  });
  
  $scope.tableSelect = function(e) {
    console.log('Table select in main');
  };

  $scope.tableSort = function(e) {
    console.log('table sort in main');
  };
});

/* Template */

<div google-table
    table="account.Summary"
    model="tableModel"
    options="tableOptions"
    ui-event="{ 'table-select': 'tableSelect(e)', 'table-sort' : 'tableSort(e)' }">
</div>