How to respond to clicks on a checkbox in an AngularJS directive?

This is the way I’ve been doing this sort of stuff. Angular tends to favor declarative manipulation of the dom rather than a imperative one(at least that’s the way I’ve been playing with it).

The markup

<table class="table">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>
        <input type="checkbox" 
          ng-click="selectAll($event)"
          ng-checked="isSelectedAll()">
      </th>
      <th>Title</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr ng-repeat="e in entities" ng-class="getSelectedClass(e)">
      <td>
        <input type="checkbox" name="selected"
          ng-checked="isSelected(e.id)"
          ng-click="updateSelection($event, e.id)">
      </td>
      <td>{{e.title}}</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

And in the controller

var updateSelected = function(action, id) {
  if (action === 'add' && $scope.selected.indexOf(id) === -1) {
    $scope.selected.push(id);
  }
  if (action === 'remove' && $scope.selected.indexOf(id) !== -1) {
    $scope.selected.splice($scope.selected.indexOf(id), 1);
  }
};

$scope.updateSelection = function($event, id) {
  var checkbox = $event.target;
  var action = (checkbox.checked ? 'add' : 'remove');
  updateSelected(action, id);
};

$scope.selectAll = function($event) {
  var checkbox = $event.target;
  var action = (checkbox.checked ? 'add' : 'remove');
  for ( var i = 0; i < $scope.entities.length; i++) {
    var entity = $scope.entities[i];
    updateSelected(action, entity.id);
  }
};

$scope.getSelectedClass = function(entity) {
  return $scope.isSelected(entity.id) ? 'selected' : '';
};

$scope.isSelected = function(id) {
  return $scope.selected.indexOf(id) >= 0;
};

//something extra I couldn't resist adding :)
$scope.isSelectedAll = function() {
  return $scope.selected.length === $scope.entities.length;
};

EDIT: getSelectedClass() expects the entire entity but it was being called with the id of the entity only, which is now corrected

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