Angularjs array changes its syntax when it has only one record

Question

I am using an angularjs array to store the record data(table rows) received by using the http.get rest API and printing using an ng-repeat. The problem is whenever there is only one record retrieved through rest API, ng-repeat doesn't print the record. ng-repeat only print the records when API retrieves more than one record.

 $scope.details=[];
  var lrequ = {
    method: 'GET',
    url: "https://example.com/execSQL?sql=mysqlquery",
    headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
}
$http(lrequ).then(function(response){
    $scope.details=response.data.platform.record;
     alert($scope.details.fieldname);
     alert($scope.details[0].fieldname)
    }, function(){alert("failure");}); 

this is my ng-repeat line,

 <div class="col-lg-12" ng-repeat="dat in details | filter : { product_name : textname} as results">
    <p style="color:#4C97C8;" class="lead"><strong>{{dat.summary}}</strong></p>
</div>

I found where is the problem causing-

1.When rest api throws only one record, i shouldnt use ng-repeat instead i should use scope variable directly in the view and this alert($scope.details.fieldname) inside controller works but not alert($scope.details[0].fieldname).

2.When rest api throws more than one record, i have to use ng-repeat and this alert($scope.details[0].fieldname) works.

How to solve this? How can i show data in view in both cases?