I've recently started working with the Ionic Framework (and therefore with Angular.js as well) and I ran into a problem with the Angular UI Router: One of the states I registered is not re-initialized when one of its $stateParams
changes. At first I thought it happens because the state is abstract and has children, so it is never activated directly - but even when I changed it to be non-abstract and one of the "deepest" states (i.e. a leaf when seeing the states within a tree structure), the problem persists. The weird thing is that it seems not to happen on other states.
I have tried different approaches and read the documentation carefully, but I could not find the cause for the issue.
The following is the code I use to register the states. The state app.festival
is the one I'm having the issue with:
- when I link to the
app.festival.overview
state for the first time, for example with URL/festival/33/overview
, the the state's controller as well as its abstract parent controller forapp.festival
are initialized correctly - but then, when I go back somewhere else, and then link to something like
/festival/21/overview
, only this state's controller is re-initialized, but not its abstract parent controller (although the parameter for thefestivalId
is part of it and should trigger a reload I suppose) - this results in the actual festival data (referenced by
festivalId
) which is managed by theapp.festival
state remains the same throughout the entire app because basically it just initializes one "instance" of the controller forapp.festival
regardless of different$stateParams
The reason I need that structure is that there needs to be a whole section of pages (states) that deal with a single festival (which should be managed by the app.festival
state).
$stateProvider
.state( 'app', {
url: '',
abstract: true,
views: {
'appContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/main.html',
controller: 'MainCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.general', {
url: '/general',
abstract: true,
views: {
'mainContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/sections/general.html',
controller: 'GeneralCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.festival', {
url: '/festival/{festivalId:int}',
abstract: true,
views: {
'mainContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/sections/festival.html',
controller: 'FestivalCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.general.festivals', {
url: '/festivals',
views: {
'generalContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/pages/general-festivals.html',
controller: 'GeneralFestivalsCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.general.events', {
url: '/events',
views: {
'generalContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/pages/general-events.html',
controller: 'GeneralEventsCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.general.event', {
url: '/events/{eventId:int}',
views: {
'generalContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/pages/general-event.html',
controller: 'GeneralEventCtrl'
}
}
})
.state( 'app.festival.overview', {
url: '/overview',
views: {
'festivalContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/pages/festival-overview.html',
controller: 'FestivalOverviewCtrl'
}
}
});
.state( 'app.festival.guide', {
url: '/guide',
views: {
'festivalContent': {
templateUrl: 'views/pages/festival-guide.html',
controller: 'FestivalGuideCtrl'
}
}
});
It would be great if anyone could help me out there as I've put quite some hours into researching the issue, but have not found a solution yet. If you need more insight into specific parts of the code, I'll gladly post it here as well.