angular-filter/src/_filter/collection/chunk-by.js

Bunch of useful filters for angularJS(with no external dependencies!)

/**
 * @ngdoc filter
 * @name chunkBy
 * @kind function
 *
 * @description
 * Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks
 */

angular.module('a8m.chunk-by', ['a8m.filter-watcher'])
    .filter('chunkBy', ['filterWatcher', function (filterWatcher) {
      return function (array, n, fillVal) {

        return filterWatcher.isMemoized('chunkBy', arguments) ||
            filterWatcher.memoize('chunkBy', arguments, this,
                _chunkBy(array, n, fillVal));
        /**
         * @description
         * Get array with size `n` in `val` inside it.
         * @param n
         * @param val
         * @returns {Array}
         */
        function fill(n, val) {
          var ret = [];
          while (n--) ret[n] = val;
          return ret;
        }

        function _chunkBy(array, n, fillVal) {
          if (!isArray(array)) return array;
          return array.map(function (el, i, self) {
            i = i * n;
            el = self.slice(i, i + n);
            return !isUndefined(fillVal) && el.length < n
                ? el.concat(fill(n - el.length, fillVal))
                : el;
          }).slice(0, Math.ceil(array.length / n));
        }
      }
    }]);