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

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

/**
 * @ngdoc filter
 * @name groupBy
 * @kind function
 *
 * @description
 * Create an object composed of keys generated from the result of running each element of a collection,
 * each key is an array of the elements.
 */

angular.module('a8m.group-by', [ 'a8m.filter-watcher' ])
  .filter('groupBy', [ '$parse', 'filterWatcher', function ( $parse, filterWatcher ) {
    return function (collection, property) {

      if(!isObject(collection) || isUndefined(property)) {
        return collection;
      }

      return filterWatcher.isMemoized('groupBy', arguments) ||
        filterWatcher.memoize('groupBy', arguments, this,
          _groupBy(collection, $parse(property)));

      /**
       * groupBy function
       * @param collection
       * @param getter
       * @returns {{}}
       */
      function _groupBy(collection, getter) {
        var result = {};
        var prop;

        forEach( collection, function( elm ) {
          prop = getter(elm);

          if(!result[prop]) {
            result[prop] = [];
          }
          result[prop].push(elm);
        });
        return result;
      }
    }
 }]);