how to access parent controller properties from child directive in AngularJS 1.8
I'm writing unit tests and This might be a silly question, but I've looked through the documentation and I'm still confused about I'm having trouble accessing properties of a parent controller from within a child directive in my AngularJS 1.8 application... I've set up my directive with an isolated scope, but I need to bind a property from the parent controller to the child directive. I expected to use `require: '^parentControllerName'`, but I'm working with the behavior `want to read property 'myProperty' of undefined` when I try to access it. Here’s how I've structured my code: In my parent controller: ```javascript app.controller('ParentController', function($scope) { $scope.myProperty = 'Hello from Parent!'; }); ``` And in my directive definition: ```javascript app.directive('myChildDirective', function() { return { restrict: 'E', scope: {}, // Isolated scope require: '^parentController', link: function(scope, element, attrs, parentCtrl) { // Trying to access parent's myProperty console.log(parentCtrl.myProperty); // This throws the behavior } }; }); ``` I’ve tried changing the isolated scope to allow for bindings, but it seems like the parent controller isn’t being referenced correctly. I also checked that the directive is being used within the parent controller's template, like this: ```html <my-child-directive></my-child-directive> ``` Is there a specific way to correctly reference properties from the parent controller in a child directive when using isolated scope? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! I'm working on a application that needs to handle this. Has anyone else encountered this? I'm working on a CLI tool that needs to handle this. What am I doing wrong? How would you solve this? Cheers for any assistance!