Kendo date picker k-start, k-depth not working.

[ansarizafar]

I am trying to use k-start and k-depth properties with date picker like this

input kendo-date-picker k-depth="'year'" k-start="'year'" id="dtcertdate" ng-model="certificate.date"

but its not working.

[mishoo]

It appears to be an Angular bug “feature”. :-( Any directives that end in -start or -end are interpreted specially (and the start / end suffixes are dropped from the attribute names).

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21242444/angularjs-directive-cannot-get-attributes-ending-with-start
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20749229/angularjs-directives-are-we-not-supposed-to-use-the-suffix-start

“This was broken in 1.2. It's best to rename the attributes to something else and move on.”

I do have a crazy workaround for you: use k-start-start (works because Angular drops only the last -start). Or, pass k-options and specify the start option there.

I'm not even sure what's the best way to fix. Angular recommends renaming, but I don't like this idea.

// cc @burkeholland @akorchev Guys, what do you think?

[akorchev]

If this is a "feature" so be it - k-start-start it is. The other way also ain't bad - k-options

[mishoo]

Yeah, k-start-start wouldn't be too bad, but what I'm afraid of is that this could trigger random “magic” in Angular if it finds a matching -end (and not the good kind of magic). The commit that added this “feature” looks scary.

Oh well. Frameworks.

[burkeholland]

Let's see if there is a way to globally override that. I don't like the thought of having attributes that you can't use even when they are custom. That seems heavy handed.

In the meantime, it sounds like the only option for the attribute is to use k-start-start or some derivative like k-start-x. Ugly.

[mishoo]

Test code: http://plnkr.co/edit/nazNFGCy9zhTLlN3zD3E?p=preview

[burkeholland]

There's the PR to fix this. In the meantime, I think options is the best way to go.