Is it possible to restore a reference to the object whose data was used through HTMLElement?

Question

Angular

There is a div:

<div id='vendor-source' class="col-md-4 vendor-bag" potential-vendors></div>

with the help of .directive divs like this are displayed inside it:

<div class="vendorBlock {{vendor.selected}}" ng-repeat="vendor in vendors">{{vendor.name}}</div>

On some event (drag'n'drop) I have a link (HTMLElement) to one of the nested divs. I need to mark the corresponding vendor-a selected.
Is it possible to restore the reference to the vendor object through HTMLElement? (How?)

Answer 1

Found a solution. Link to vendor-a:
angular.element(el).scope().vendor