How can I pass data with URLs to ui-sref?

Question

I ny view I have: <a ui-sref="app.file({path: file.path})">{{ file.path }}</a>

file.path is html/hero-sidebar.html

My state is defined as:

  .state('app.file', {
    url: '/file/*path'
    views:
      repositoryView:
        templateUrl: '/templates/app/_file.html'
  })

But when I click the link, it goes to http://localhost:9001/app/file/html%252Fhero-sidebar.html

What I want is for it to go to http://localhost:9001/app/file/html/hero-sidebar.html

Is this possible using ui-router with AngularJS?

Answer 1

There is already logged issue in ui-router Github, you could found it here

In order to solve this you need to add this code inside your config which will take care of encoding and decoding of url.

you could override the built-in string type (which is performing the slash encoding) by registering your own replacement "string" type using below code

Code

app.config(['$urlMatcherFactory', '$stateProvider', function($urlMatcherFactory, $stateProvider) {
    //$stateProvider.state() & other code here

    function valToString(val) {
        return val != null ? val.toString() : val;
    }

    function regexpMatches(val) { /*jshint validthis:true */
        return this.pattern.test(val);
    }
    $urlMatcherFactory.type("string", {
        encode: valToString,
        decode: valToString,
        is: regexpMatches,
        pattern: /[^/]*/
    });
}]);

Working Plunkr