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UI-router empty param causes navigation to wrong route

This should be simple but I just can't figure it out.
I have two routes:
$stateProvider
.state('users', {
url: '/users',
views: {'#': {
templateUrl: 'templates/users.tpl.html',
controller: 'UsersCtrl as users'
}}
})
.state('users.edit', {
url: '/{userId}',
views: {'#': {
templateUrl: 'templates/editUser.tpl.html',
controller: 'EditUserCtrl as editUser'
}}
});
This works fine if you use a ui-sref or $state.go to navigate to the "users" state by name, but if you type domain.com/users/ into the URL bar it goes to the edit state with empty userId parameter even though there is nothing after the trailing stash.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem but firing the editUser route with no userId causes console errors which would be a pain to fix.
Is this easily fixable?

Take a look to this post:
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/50
and this link referenced in the post:
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#how-to-make-a-trailing-slash-optional-for-all-routes

Your states definition should be
$stateProvider
.state('users', {
url: '/users',
views: {'#': {
templateUrl: 'templates/users.tpl.html',
controller: 'UsersCtrl as users'
}}
})
.state('users.edit', {
url: '/edit/{userId}',
views: {'#': {
templateUrl: 'templates/editUser.tpl.html',
controller: 'EditUserCtrl as editUser'
}}
});
your child state url should be '/edit/{userId}'. When we create a child state its url automatically added its parent state url. So if your url is '/{userId}' it will be 'domain.com/users/{userId}'. That's why for domain.com/users/ its navigate to the state users.edit with null parameter value.
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/nested-states-%26-nested-views

angularjs - ui-router - can we preload nested state?

I have this in my app.js:
$stateProvider
.state('actionplans', {
url: "/actionplans",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
})
.state('actionplans.planning', {
url: "/planning",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.planning.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
})
.state('actionplans.summary', {
url: "/summary",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.summary.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
})
How can I default load nest view action 'actionplans.summary.html' when called actionplans.html?

There is a working example
The way which will
load some view inside of a parent - and stay on parent
allow child change it when navigating to child
is called Multiple named views:
.state('actionplans', {
url: "/actionplans",
views: {
'': {
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
},
'#actionplans': {
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.summary.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('actionplans.planning', {
url: "/planning",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.planning.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
})
.state('actionplans.summary', {
url: "/summary",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.summary.html",
//controller : 'ActionplansCtrl'
})
What we did above, is that we used views : {} object to define two views. First is targeting the index.html (the '') the second is targeting this state view target for children ( the '#actionplans').
views: {
'': { // index.html
...
},
'#actionplans': { // this targets the unnamed view for children
Read more about absolute names here
Another way, is to define some default redirection, but that will disable parent state as a real target (e.g. here Redirect a state to default substate with UI-Router in AngularJS)

Here discuss about AngularJS Routing Using UI-Router, you will get enough idea about nested view and multiple view.
https://scotch.io/tutorials/angular-routing-using-ui-router

I found a simple solution here.
$urlRouterProvider.when('/actionplans', '/actionplans/summary');//<-- Add in this line
$stateProvider
.state('actionplans', {
url: "/actionplans",
abstract: true,/// <-- Add in this line
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.html",
})
.state('actionplans.planning', {
url: "/planning",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.planning.html",
})
.state('actionplans.summary', {
url: "/summary",
templateUrl: "pages/actionplans.summary.html",
})
This will load nest view actionplans.summary.html by default when you call /actionplans. My apology that I did not make this clearer in my question so I post the answer here hopefully it will help someone else with the similar scenario.

Child state loads parent state templateUrl in nested routes of UI-Router

I'm using UI-Router module for routing. I have 2 states that router should match the urls with them according to nested routes laws :
// Dashboard
.state('dashboard', {
url: "/dashboard",
templateUrl: "dashboard/views/index.html",
controller: "DashboardController",
...
})
// Users
.state('users', {
url: "/users",
templateUrl: "users/views/index.html",
controller: "UsersController",
...
})
// Single User
.state('users.id', {
url: "/{id:(?:[a-z0-9_-]{3,16})}",
templateUrl: "users/views/show.html",
controller: "UserController",
...
})
also I have set a default route :
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/dashboard");
Problem :
when I go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/#/users/testuser123, it shows index.html from users state instead of show.html from users.id state. What's the Problem ?

You should add users within your url definition for users.id if you call http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/#/users/testuser123
.state('users.id', {
url: "/users/{id:(?:[a-z0-9_-]{3,16})}",
templateUrl: "users/views/show.html",
controller: "UserController",
...
})

AngularJS (Ionic Framework) - changing State within controller doesn't seem to be working

What I am trying to do is within the Search controller, once I get the search results back from the server ($http) change view to a different view - the search results view. I am not sure if the approach I am going about it is right, but either-way it doesn't seem to be working. I will need to pass the response as well, so the new view can display the results/response.
My app.js:
.....state('tab.search', {
url: '/search',
views: {
'tab-search': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search.html',
controller: 'SearchCtrl as search'
}
}
})
.state('tab.search-results', {
url: '/results',
views: {
'tab-search-results': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search-results.html',
controller: 'SearchResultsCtrl as searchResults'
}
}
})
Then my search controller has:
.controller('SearchCtrl', function($scope, $state, $location, $ionicPopup, service) {
....
$scope.doSearch = function(state) {
.....
var result = service.doSearch(dataObj);
result.then(function(response) {
console.log("I'm here");
$state.go('tab.search-results');
......
My search results view (tab-search-results.html) has the following basic code at the moment:
<ion-view view-title="Search Results">
<ion-content padding="true">
hello world
</ion-content>
</ion-view>
This basic structure is how all my other pages/views are setup too.
What happens when I perform the search is that the console message gets outputted, and then the URL changes to /results as per the tab.search-results state, but the template/view doesn't change/show.
Interestingly if I change $state.go('tab.search-results'); to point to another app state/view that I know works, it works perfectly - but for whatever reason this state/view isn't working.
Also, if there is a better way of achieving this same thing, then please let me know. I will be needing to eventually pass the "response" from SearchCtrl to SearchResultsCtrl - or rather access it on the search results page in one form or another.
Many thanks.

I think you are looking for $stateParams.
var result = service.doSearch(dataObj);
result.then(function(response) {
$state.go('tab.search-results', {'searchData':response});
}
In your routes file:
.state('tab.search-results', {
url: '/results/:searchData',
views: {
'tab-search-results': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search-results.html',
controller: 'SearchResultsCtrl as searchResults'
}
}
})
And in your SearchResultsCtrl:
.controller($stateParams) {
console.log($stateParams.searchData) // will give you search results
}
NOTE:If you don't want to pass data through the URL you can use params key in the .state() method.
.state('tab.search-results', {
url: '/results',
params: {
'searchData':null
},
views: {
'tab-search-results': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search-results.html',
controller: 'SearchResultsCtrl as searchResults'
}
}
})

I realised why my view wasn't changing properly. The fix was changing the views in the sub-view to reference the parent view.
Fail (sub-view has unique name from parent):
.....state('tab.search', {
url: '/search',
views: {
'tab-search': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search.html',
controller: 'SearchCtrl as search'
}
}
})
.state('tab.search-results', {
url: '/results',
views: {
'tab-search-results': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search-results.html',
controller: 'SearchResultsCtrl as searchResults'
}
}
})
Success (sub-view references parent, 'tab-search'):
.....state('tab.search', {
url: '/search',
views: {
'tab-search': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search.html',
controller: 'SearchCtrl as search'
}
}
})
.state('tab.search-results', {
url: '/results',
views: {
'tab-search': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-search-results.html',
controller: 'SearchResultsCtrl as searchResults'
}
}
})

Thanks all, I think I worked out the problem. It was putting the search results page under the tab abstract state. eg: tab.search-results rather than search-results - I am guessing this was the problem as there is no search results tab. When I re-named the state to just search-results (and modified the $state.go to use 'search-results' instead of 'tab.search-results') it worked. Does this seem right?

AngularJS stateprovider view templates

WikiApp.config(function config($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('revision', {
url: '/wiki',
views: {
"main": {
controller: 'ListCtrl',
templateUrl: 'wiki/wiki.tpl.html'
},
"sidebar-left": {
templateUrl: 'wiki/wiki.sidebar-left.tpl.html'
}
},
data:{ pageTitle: 'List articles' }
})
This is what my Angular bit looks like and this is how I execute it inside of a template (wiki.tpl.html):
<div ui-view="sidebar-left"></div>
Now the main view works fine, but as I try to integrate the sidebar, it doesn't load, what am I doing wrong and how can I use more than one template in a single page like this?
Thank you!

WikiApp.config(function config($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('revision', {
url: '/wiki',
views: {
main: {
controller: 'ListCtrl',
templateUrl: 'wiki/wiki.tpl.html'
},
sidebarLeft: {
templateUrl: 'wiki/wiki.sidebar-left.tpl.html'
}
},
data:{ pageTitle: 'List articles' }
})

If you want to use nested templates you should implement that using sub-views. In your current example you are setting both templates as sibling templates.
I suggest you to create 2 states. Abstract view for the main template 'main' and another view 'main.wiki'. Route should be assigned to 'main.wiki' state ant it will inherit parameters from the main view (including template settings).
Hope that's clear.