Okay, I have two use cases for my question here:
I'm working on an application which has a
/en/register
route. It all works good when I'm at the root and I click a button that doesthis.router.navigate([this.routeParams.lang, 'register']);
and it's all good, this opens up a modal in the constructor (or ngOnInit, anyways) with($('#modalRegister') as any).modal('show');
.It all works good, but if I close the modal, the route is still
/en/register/
(yeah I can make it go to/en
but see the use case #2 before you suggest this), so when I click the button, it doesn't do anything. Neither the constructor or ngOnInit are being called, not even route.params.subscribe() or route.url.subscribe() (which I think they should...).In the same application, I have a button that does a search and centers some markers in a map (in
/en/search/blah
). That's all good if I'm in the index page or if I change the search query. However, if the user drags the map somewhere else and wants to have the same markers centered again, I also dothis.router.navigate(['search', this.searchQuery]);
and if it ends up being the same route (click the search button twice, for instance) it doesn't do anything.
While I agree it's good so the components don't get recreated if the URL hasn't changed, this is a bad design because in UI-router you could do the same thing and it'd work (as far as I can remember).
So, in Angular 4, how do I run the same code in the constructor/ngOnInit of the route's component when the same URL is being told to be navigated to? or how do I detect if the URL is the same and act accordingly? (although I still think it's bad design, but anyway...).
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks!