Have $formatters be called when view is first populated?

Question

Have $formatters be called when view is first populated?

NgModelController provides $formatters for model -> view transformations. I am playing with it in this fiddle. It works fine after I make changes to the model through another input, but my formatter isn't called when the value is initially populated. Is there a way to make this happen?

angularjs

Answer 1

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

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