Angular JS: Pushing objects into an array. It is creating an object, then another array. I need it to create separate objects. Is this possible?

Question

After adding "multiple = true" to my select, it's adding an array of objects to the model instead of each object separately.

This is what I want:

{
    teams: [
      {name: 'team1'},
      {name: 'team2'},
      {name: 'team3'}
    ]
}

But instead I'm getting

{
    teams: [
      {name: 'team1'},
      {name: ['team2','team3']}
    ]
}

Pic of data structure issue.

2 Teams put in manually are objects. Teams put in using md-select are an array within an object.

$scope.baseGitblituser = {
    CODE HERE DELETED FOR READABILITY, WAS FOR OTHER USER FIELDS
    teams:
      [{name: "xignorex All Users"},
      {name: "Test Users"}]
};

This initiates the scope for the user and adds the global teams manually that all users will contain.

// this is created elsewhere using $scope.gitblitUser = angular.copy($scope.baseGitblituser);
$scope.gitblitUser.teams.push({name:user.team});

This is part of the function that is called when the md-select button is clicked to create a new user. This is how the teams array is updated with new teams.

  <md-select ng-model="user.team" multiple="true" name="teams" placeholder="your default team " style="min-width: 200px;">
         <md-optgroup label="">
               <md-option ng-value="team.name" ng-repeat="team in teams">{{team.name}}</md-option>
                            </md-optgroup>

This is the HTML portion.

Answer 1

So the link that Kevin B referred me to might've worked... but it got a little interesting for me and changed up my html a lot. BUT! I saw the for loop in there... and even though it's used differently, it gave me the idea to try messing with a for loop to pull objects out of the array individually.

$scope.gitblitUser.teams.push({name:user.team}); 

Changed to -

for (var i=0; i < user.team.length; i++){ $scope.gitblitUser.teams.push({name: user.team[i]}); } 

So ultimately... your link helped spark the for loop thought - so thank you very much!

Thought I'd post this here incase anyone runs into the issue I did in the future.