My user can leave a state but before I want to show a modal dialog "Do you want to save?"
ONLY if the user data is dirty that means changed.
What I do NOT want is to stick a isDirty property in my EditController to the $rootScope go to the stateChangeStart event and check there for isDirty and then show/not the save dialog.
Prevent global variables says every javascript beginner book...
1.) What is then the pro way to prevent a state change without hacking the $rootscope?.
2.) Are there any helper libraries for ui-router which enhance the ui-router offering function hooks inside the controller to encapsulate the ui logic?
(1) According to the docs under State Change Events
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart',
function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams){
event.preventDefault();
// transitionTo() promise will be rejected with
// a 'transition prevented' error
})
You could change $rootScope to $scope wherever appropriate and works.
Under Attach Custom Data to State Objects, you can pass on custom data.
(2) I'm not sure what you're asking but factories/services/providers would really help.
Using $transitions.onStart (angular-ui-router 1.0.0-rc) you can return a boolean. If false
the transition will be cancelled.
$transitions.onStart({}, function (trans) {
var answer = confirm("Want to leave this page?")
if (!answer) {
return false;
}
});
Here is the documentation: https://ui-router.github.io/ng1/docs/latest/modules/transition.html#hookresult
Though at the time of writing it is not a part of the stable release, the 1.0 release of the UI-router will use the return value of onEnter/onExit to prevent navigation.
See GitHub issue 2219