I have a menu with some links that update the div content
and execute the function onSuccess
after it is loaded.
<li>@Ajax.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "home")</li>
<li>@Ajax.ActionLink("Download", "Index", "download")</li>
If I am on the url /home
and click the download link the div changes successfully. The problem is that the URL is not changed.
How can I retrieve the requested URL so I can call history.pushState
on successful requests?
From this question (How to get request url in a jQuery $.get/ajax request) I found out that I can retrieve it with this.url
.
From MDC window.history I found the syntax and from MDC Manipulating the browser history I found that I can get the current state with history.state
(doesn't seem to work on Chrome though) and discovered that when calling pushState
I can only send 640k characters on the stateObject
or else it throws an exception.
My current method for successful ajax requests is:
OnSuccess: function(html, status, xhr){
var requestedUrl = this.url.replace(/[&?]X-Requested-With=XMLHttpRequest/i, "");
// if the url is the same, replace the state
if (window.location.href == requestedUrl)
{
history.replaceState({html:html}, document.title, requestedUrl);
}
else
{
history.pushState({html:html}, document.title, requestedUrl);
}
},
For a basic test I am storing the entire result on the stateObject
, if it throws an exception I will set the URL instead to be able to make a new request.
My popstate
event is
$(window).bind("popstate", function (e) {
var state = e.originalEvent.state;
$("#body").html(state.html);
});
It restores the page as it was previously, I don't need to make a new request.
The only way I can think of achieving this is by using jQuery to handle the click event of the links. So you could add a class attribute to your links as follows;
@Ajax.ActionLink("Home", "Index", "home", new { @class = "menuLinks" })
The add your click event;
$(".menuLinks").click(function() {
history.pushState(stateObj, $(this).html, $(this).attr("href"));
}
Not very familar with the pushState signature but I believe using the href of the 'a' tag will work as a valid url to pass to the pushState.