Memory leak: Event binding to document is never cleaned.

[ubenzer]

In auto-complete.js an event handler attached to body, but it is not cleared on directive destroy. This handler stays even if element is destroyed causing all closures to be kept in memory (which includes scopes) and element itself (as detached node.)

In our application, we patched that part like this to fix it quickly:

var docuFn = function() {
  if (suggestionList.visible) {
    suggestionList.reset();
    scope.$apply();
  }
};
$document.on('click', docuFn);
element.on("$destroy", function() {
  $document.off('click', docuFn);
});

[mbenford]

Hi @ubenzer.

Thanks for reporting that! Do you know if that happens with other events as well?

[ubenzer]

Hi @mbenford , I didn't see any other problem with events. Events attached to element itself is properly cleaned as far as I see.