Should $ formatters be called when the view is first populated?

Question

NgModelController provides $formatters for model conversion →. I play with this in fiddle . It works fine after making changes to the model using another input, but my formatter is not called when the value is initially populated. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Whenever the variable $ modelValue changes, all $ formatters are called. So after calling the read () function, set $ modelValue to run $ formatters to run:

 read(); // initialize ngModel.$modelValue = ''; // causes $formatters to run 

See also this google group post .