AngularJS - accessing the directive object inside the controller

Question

Let's say that I have define a simple directive:

app.directive('someDirective', [function() {
    return {
        restrict: 'E',
        link: function() {

        },
        controller: [function() {
           // Access directive object here...
        }]
    }
}]);

Can I access the generated someDirective object inside someDirective's controller function? I know that the this property reference the directive object inside the compile and template functions, but i don't know how to access the directive object inside the controller function. Any tricks?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Sure you can, not sure why you'd want too though...

app.directive('someDirective', [function() {
    var directiveObject = {
        restrict: 'E',
        link: function() {

        },
        controller: [function() {
           // Access directive object here...
           directiveObject.whatever
        }]
    }

    return  directiveObject;
}]);