I've been doing some Googling around this already but I'm unable to find a solution that works.
I'm using AngularJS 1.5.5 and .NET Web API 2 to build a web application and I would quite simply like to hide the ng-view element until all resolves have completed on the route.
I'm trying to use the $routeChangeStart and $routeChangeSuccess to set a variable on the $rootScope that is used in the index html to display the loading indicator and hide the content until the variable is false.
Here is my routing code for the routeChange properties:
_app.config([
'$routeProvider', '$httpProvider', '$provide',
function ($routeProvider, $httpProvider, $provide) {
$routeProvider.when('/Account',
{
templateUrl: '/Content/js/areas/account/account.html',
controller: 'accountController',
resolve: {
$accountResolver: function (accountService) {
return accountService.getMyAccountData();
}
},
caseInsensitiveMatch: true
});
$routeProvider.otherwise({ redirectTo: '404' });
}
]);
_app.run(['$rootScope', '$location', '$window', '$q', 'authService',
function ($rootScope, $location, $window, $q, authService) {
$rootScope.$on("$routeChangeStart",
function (e, curr, prev) {
$rootScope.$loadingRoute = true;
});
$rootScope.$on("$routeChangeSuccess",
function (evt, next) {
$rootScope.$loadingRoute = false;
});
$rootScope.$on("$routeChangeError",
function (evt, next) {
$rootScope.$loadingRoute = false;
});
}]);
And here is my html using that $loadingRoute variable:
<body class="ng-cloak" data-ng-app="wishlist" data-ng-controller="appController">
<wl-header></wl-header>
<preloader ng-if="$loadingRoute"></preloader>
<section ng-view ng-if="!$loadingRoute" class="container ng-cloak"></section>
</body>
I understand that there's quite a lot of articles covering this but none seem to work in my case. $loadingRoute gets set to true when the route change starts, as expected, which I will see if I add {{$loadingRoute}} to the HTML before the <section></section> tag. However before the $accountResolveris resolved, the $routeChangeSuccess gets fired, setting $rootScope.$loadingRoute = false which is unexpected.
I was under the impression that $routeChangeSuccess only got fired after all resolves had completed on the current route.
Am I doing something really obviously wrong here? Or has Angular simply changed?
Edit: I would also like to add that this approach worked in previous projects, so I'm at a real loss as to what's going wrong. I could set $rootScope.$loadingRoute manually in each page controller but that feels too dirty and unmaintainable.
Edit 2:
_app.factory('accountService', [
'accountResource',
function (accountResource) {
var _self = this;
return {
register: function (authData) {
return accountResource.register(authData);
},
getMyAccountData: function () {
return accountResource.getMyAccountData();
}
}
}
]);
_app.factory('accountResource', [
'$resource', 'rootUrl',
function ($resource, rootUrl) {
var api = rootUrl() + 'api/Account';
return $resource(api,
{},
{
register: {
method: 'POST',
url: '{0}/register'.format(api)
},
getMyAccountData: {
method: 'GET',
url: '{0}/GetMyAccountData'.format(api)
}
});
}
])
In order for a resolver to delay route change, it should return a promise. Otherwise route change happens immediately, this is what happens when $routeChangeSuccess is triggered before a promise from accountService.getMyAccountData() is resolved.
The problem is $resource methods (and so accountService.getMyAccountData()) return self-filling object that is populated with data asynchronously. A promise for this data is available as $promise property (see the reference), so it should be used for a resolver:
$accountResolver: function (accountService) {
return accountService.getMyAccountData().$promise;
}
If accountService is supposed to be purely promise-based wrapper for accountResource, a cleaner way to do this is to return a promise from its methods instead:
getMyAccountData: function () {
return accountResource.getMyAccountData().$promise;
}
I have the following question... or situation. I have states defined in my AngularJS app, like so...
$stateProvider
.state('myApp', {
abstract: true,
template: '<ui-view/>'
})
.state('myApp.stateOne', {
url: 'state1',
templateUrl: '/an/views/state-1.html',
controller: 'StateOneCtrl'
})
.state('myApp.stateTwo', {
url: 'state2',
templateUrl: '/an/views/state-2.html'
controller: 'StateTwoCtrl'
})
.state('myApp.stateThree', {
url: 'state3',
templateUrl: '/an/views/state-3.html'
controller: 'StateThreeCtrl'
})
There are more states and I have changed the naming for this example, but suppose I need to check if the user is allowed to see / load 'mayApp.stateThree'. I can determine this by asking the backend. I have a service (in this example called IsAllowedService) to deal with this requests / provide the access and normally I would write the logic to do the check in the .run() block in my app.js file for example:
.run(['IsAllowedService', '$state', function (IsAllowedService, $state) {
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (event, toState, toParams, fromState) {
// check if we are going to sfm.addContacts and if we are allowed to...
if (toState.name === 'myApp.stateThree') {
IsAllowedService.checkIfIsAllowed().then(function (resp) {
if(resp.allowed === false) {
$state.go('myApp.stateOne');
}
});
}
});
}]);
This works well but doesn't wait until we get the result from the service so 'mayApp.stateThree' is loaded then we a redirected if necessary. So we get a quick flash of the page before we are redirected. I could put the same code into the 'StateThreeCtrl' but I still get the flash / FOUC. Would it be possible to resolve this when defining the states, I know this won't work but something like this...
.state('myApp.stateThree', {
url: '/an/state3',
templateUrl: '/an/views/state-3.html'
controller: 'StateThreeCtrl',
resolve: {
isAllowed : function () {
IsAllowedService.checkIfIsAllowed().then(function (resp) {
return resp;
})
}
}
I realise that I wouldn't be able to inject the service (or even the $http service) but is it possible for me to somehow pause the loading of the view / controller of 'mayApp.stateThree' until I get the result from IsAllowedService.checkIfIsAllowed(). Any advice on how to structure my app / code would be appreciated. I have used ng-cloak in my HTML view but this did nothing!
Actually you're doing it almost right in the application's run block. Except you are not preventing anything. You can achieve that by adding:
event.preventDefault(); //Prevent from going to the page
Furthermore, you can add custom data to your $states , which will allow you to verify those conditions with your criteria. e.g.:
$stateProvider.state('home', {
controller: 'HomeController as home',
url: '/home',
templateUrl: 'home.html',
data: { roles: [ROLES.ANONYMOUS] }}); //This can be any condition
$stateProvider.state('user', {
controller: 'UserController as user',
url: '/user',
templateUrl: 'user.html',
data: { roles: [ROLES.ADMIN, ROLES.USER] }});
You can retrieve this custom data in the $stateChangeStart event:
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function (event, next) {
if (!yourService.isAuthorized(next.data.roles)) {
event.preventDefault(); //Prevent from going to the page -> no flickering
$state.go('403'); //Or whatever is desired.
}
});
You see the flickering because you're using a Promise and the first page only gets redirected when the promise is furfilled. You can stop the flickering by preventing the default action, authorize and continue your flow as you desire when the promise resolves.
if (toState.name === 'myApp.stateThree') {
event.preventDefault(); //preventing the request.
IsAllowedService.checkIfIsAllowed().then(function (resp) {
if(resp.allowed === false) {
$state.go('myApp.stateOne');
} else { //he actually is allowed to go to state three.
$state.go('myApp.stateThree');
}
}, function() { //in case the server has no answer
$state.go('myApp.stateOne'); //you probably want to prevent it too
} );
In my opinion, if these conditions do not change during runtime, i.e. user role based, you can retrieve them upon user verification so you don't need a promise to begin with. Hope this helps.
I made a similar post before and added a working plunker.
In one of my UI-router states, I have the following link '/users', which points to a page that shows a list of users. Below is the code I wrote to resolve the list of users by using a $resource call, however, the data doesn't seem resolved when the page is loaded:
.state('users', {
url: '/users',
templateUrl: '/assets/angularApp/partials/users.html',
controller: 'UserListCtrl as vm',
resolve: {
users: function ($resource) {
return $resource('http://localhost:8080/api/users').query().$promise.then(function(data) {
return data;
});
}
}
})
In the UserListCtrl, I have the following to assign the resolved users to vm.users so that the users can be displayed on the partial page:
function UserListCtrl($log, users) {
var vm = this;
vm.users = users;
}
The page, however, only displays a few empty rows without any data filled in. So I think the resolve is not working properly on my url /users, could anyone spot where might be problematic? Thanks
Change it to:
users: function ($resource) {
return $resource('http://localhost:8080/api/users').query().$promise;
}
Because that way you're returning the promise, and by using then(...), you're resolving the promise within and just returning data thus it won't pass it to the controller because it's returning them after the controller has loaded.
Using $q service will help you
var userVal = $resource('http://localhost:8080/api/users').query()
retrun $q.resolve(userVal.$promise).then(function(r){ return r;});
Inside you controller, you are good to go
vm.users = users
I'm pretty new to Angular and I've been going round in circles on this one for a while now.
A bit of background first, I'm using the MEAN stack from mean.io which uses Angular UI Router.
I have a Post model in my DB which can have a category id assigned to it.
When I create a new post I want to load the existing categories from the DB and display them in a select box.
From what I can see I need to use resolve, first of all it doesn't feel right having logic in the resolve property which is in a file called config.js - so far I've placed the call to a service in there and im getting the categories back using the following code:
.state('create post', {
url: '/posts/create',
templateUrl: 'views/posts/create.html',
controller: 'PostsController',
resolve: {
loadCategories: function (Categories) {
Categories.query(function(categories) {
return categories;
});
}
}
})
The first problem is that I can't access the returned data in my controller or view.
Secondly I only want to load Categories that belong to a certain Organisation. I will be assigning an organisation id to each user so how can I access the currently signed in user when I'm in config.js - again this doesn't feel like the right place to be doing this sort of logic though.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
config.js:
register post state :
.state('post', {
url: '/posts/create',
templateUrl: 'views/posts/create.html',
controller: 'PostsController',
resolve: PostsController.resolve
})
register posts controller:
.controller({
PostsController: ['$scope', 'loadCategories', PostsController],
...
})
controller function:
function PostsController($scope, loadCategories){
$scope.categories = loadCategories;
};
PostsController.resolve = {
loadCategories: ['dependencies', function(dependencies){
return dependencies.query(...)
}]
};
Angular manage your dependency injection
Assuming Categories is an angular resource, you should be able to just
loadCategories: function (Categories) {
return Categories.query();
}
And then in your controller:
.controller('PostsController', function ($scope, loadCategories) {
$scope.categories = loadCategories;
});
Ok, reading your comments, it sounds like you'll have some issue because you want to inject this into the controller, but only in certain states. You could try:
.state('create post', {
url: '/posts/create',
templateUrl: 'views/posts/create.html',
controller: 'PostsController',
data: {
categories: Categories.query()
}
})
and then
.controller('PostsController', function ($scope, $state){
console.log($state.current.data.categories);
});
Which should work...
I am wondering if there is a way (similar to Gmail) for AngularJS to delay showing a new route until after each model and its data has been fetched using its respective services.
For example, if there were a ProjectsController that listed all Projects and project_index.html which was the template that showed these Projects, Project.query() would be fetched completely before showing the new page.
Until then, the old page would still continue to show (for example, if I were browsing another page and then decided to see this Project index).
$routeProvider resolve property allows delaying of route change until data is loaded.
First define a route with resolve attribute like this.
angular.module('phonecat', ['phonecatFilters', 'phonecatServices', 'phonecatDirectives']).
config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.
when('/phones', {
templateUrl: 'partials/phone-list.html',
controller: PhoneListCtrl,
resolve: PhoneListCtrl.resolve}).
when('/phones/:phoneId', {
templateUrl: 'partials/phone-detail.html',
controller: PhoneDetailCtrl,
resolve: PhoneDetailCtrl.resolve}).
otherwise({redirectTo: '/phones'});
}]);
notice that the resolve property is defined on route.
function PhoneListCtrl($scope, phones) {
$scope.phones = phones;
$scope.orderProp = 'age';
}
PhoneListCtrl.resolve = {
phones: function(Phone, $q) {
// see: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/angular/DGf7yyD4Oc4
var deferred = $q.defer();
Phone.query(function(successData) {
deferred.resolve(successData);
}, function(errorData) {
deferred.reject(); // you could optionally pass error data here
});
return deferred.promise;
},
delay: function($q, $defer) {
var delay = $q.defer();
$defer(delay.resolve, 1000);
return delay.promise;
}
}
Notice that the controller definition contains a resolve object which declares things which should be available to the controller constructor. Here the phones is injected into the controller and it is defined in the resolve property.
The resolve.phones function is responsible for returning a promise. All of the promises are collected and the route change is delayed until after all of the promises are resolved.
Working demo: http://mhevery.github.com/angular-phonecat/app/#/phones
Source: https://github.com/mhevery/angular-phonecat/commit/ba33d3ec2d01b70eb5d3d531619bf90153496831
Here's a minimal working example which works for Angular 1.0.2
Template:
<script type="text/ng-template" id="/editor-tpl.html">
Editor Template {{datasets}}
</script>
<div ng-view>
</div>
JavaScript:
function MyCtrl($scope, datasets) {
$scope.datasets = datasets;
}
MyCtrl.resolve = {
datasets : function($q, $http) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
$http({method: 'GET', url: '/someUrl'})
.success(function(data) {
deferred.resolve(data)
})
.error(function(data){
//actually you'd want deffered.reject(data) here
//but to show what would happen on success..
deferred.resolve("error value");
});
return deferred.promise;
}
};
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', [], function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/', {
templateUrl: '/editor-tpl.html',
controller: MyCtrl,
resolve: MyCtrl.resolve
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/dTJ9N/3/
Streamlined version:
Since $http() already returns a promise (aka deferred), we actually don't need to create our own. So we can simplify MyCtrl. resolve to:
MyCtrl.resolve = {
datasets : function($http) {
return $http({
method: 'GET',
url: 'http://fiddle.jshell.net/'
});
}
};
The result of $http() contains data, status, headers and config objects, so we need to change the body of MyCtrl to:
$scope.datasets = datasets.data;
http://jsfiddle.net/dTJ9N/5/
I see some people asking how to do this using the angular.controller method with minification friendly dependency injection. Since I just got this working I felt obliged to come back and help. Here's my solution (adopted from the original question and Misko's answer):
angular.module('phonecat', ['phonecatFilters', 'phonecatServices', 'phonecatDirectives']).
config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.
when('/phones', {
templateUrl: 'partials/phone-list.html',
controller: PhoneListCtrl,
resolve: {
phones: ["Phone", "$q", function(Phone, $q) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
Phone.query(function(successData) {
deferred.resolve(successData);
}, function(errorData) {
deferred.reject(); // you could optionally pass error data here
});
return deferred.promise;
]
},
delay: ["$q","$defer", function($q, $defer) {
var delay = $q.defer();
$defer(delay.resolve, 1000);
return delay.promise;
}
]
},
}).
when('/phones/:phoneId', {
templateUrl: 'partials/phone-detail.html',
controller: PhoneDetailCtrl,
resolve: PhoneDetailCtrl.resolve}).
otherwise({redirectTo: '/phones'});
}]);
angular.controller("PhoneListCtrl", [ "$scope", "phones", ($scope, phones) {
$scope.phones = phones;
$scope.orderProp = 'age';
}]);
Since this code is derived from the question/most popular answer it is untested, but it should send you in the right direction if you already understand how to make minification friendly angular code. The one part that my own code didn't requires was an injection of "Phone" into the resolve function for 'phones', nor did I use any 'delay' object at all.
I also recommend this youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KITGRQujQ&list=UUKW92i7iQFuNILqQOUOCrFw&index=4&feature=plcp , which helped me quite a bit
Should it interest you I've decided to also paste my own code (Written in coffeescript) so you can see how I got it working.
FYI, in advance I use a generic controller that helps me do CRUD on several models:
appModule.config ['$routeProvider', ($routeProvider) ->
genericControllers = ["boards","teachers","classrooms","students"]
for controllerName in genericControllers
$routeProvider
.when "/#{controllerName}/",
action: 'confirmLogin'
controller: 'GenericController'
controllerName: controllerName
templateUrl: "/static/templates/#{controllerName}.html"
resolve:
items : ["$q", "$route", "$http", ($q, $route, $http) ->
deferred = $q.defer()
controllerName = $route.current.controllerName
$http(
method: "GET"
url: "/api/#{controllerName}/"
)
.success (response) ->
deferred.resolve(response.payload)
.error (response) ->
deferred.reject(response.message)
return deferred.promise
]
$routeProvider
.otherwise
redirectTo: '/'
action: 'checkStatus'
]
appModule.controller "GenericController", ["$scope", "$route", "$http", "$cookies", "items", ($scope, $route, $http, $cookies, items) ->
$scope.items = items
#etc ....
]
This commit, which is part of version 1.1.5 and above, exposes the $promise object of $resource. Versions of ngResource including this commit allow resolving resources like this:
$routeProvider
resolve: {
data: function(Resource) {
return Resource.get().$promise;
}
}
controller
app.controller('ResourceCtrl', ['$scope', 'data', function($scope, data) {
$scope.data = data;
}]);
This snippet is dependency injection friendly (I even use it in combination of ngmin and uglify) and it's a more elegant domain driven based solution.
The example below registers a Phone resource and a constant phoneRoutes, which contains all your routing information for that (phone) domain. Something I didn't like in the provided answer was the location of the resolve logic -- the main module should not know anything or be bothered about the way the resource arguments are provided to the controller. This way the logic stays in the same domain.
Note: if you're using ngmin (and if you're not: you should) you only have to write the resolve functions with the DI array convention.
angular.module('myApp').factory('Phone',function ($resource) {
return $resource('/api/phone/:id', {id: '#id'});
}).constant('phoneRoutes', {
'/phone': {
templateUrl: 'app/phone/index.tmpl.html',
controller: 'PhoneIndexController'
},
'/phone/create': {
templateUrl: 'app/phone/edit.tmpl.html',
controller: 'PhoneEditController',
resolve: {
phone: ['$route', 'Phone', function ($route, Phone) {
return new Phone();
}]
}
},
'/phone/edit/:id': {
templateUrl: 'app/phone/edit.tmpl.html',
controller: 'PhoneEditController',
resolve: {
form: ['$route', 'Phone', function ($route, Phone) {
return Phone.get({ id: $route.current.params.id }).$promise;
}]
}
}
});
The next piece is injecting the routing data when the module is in the configure state and applying it to the $routeProvider.
angular.module('myApp').config(function ($routeProvider,
phoneRoutes,
/* ... otherRoutes ... */) {
$routeProvider.when('/', { templateUrl: 'app/main/index.tmpl.html' });
// Loop through all paths provided by the injected route data.
angular.forEach(phoneRoutes, function(routeData, path) {
$routeProvider.when(path, routeData);
});
$routeProvider.otherwise({ redirectTo: '/' });
});
Testing the route configuration with this setup is also pretty easy:
describe('phoneRoutes', function() {
it('should match route configuration', function() {
module('myApp');
// Mock the Phone resource
function PhoneMock() {}
PhoneMock.get = function() { return {}; };
module(function($provide) {
$provide.value('Phone', FormMock);
});
inject(function($route, $location, $rootScope, phoneRoutes) {
angular.forEach(phoneRoutes, function (routeData, path) {
$location.path(path);
$rootScope.$digest();
expect($route.current.templateUrl).toBe(routeData.templateUrl);
expect($route.current.controller).toBe(routeData.controller);
});
});
});
});
You can see it in full glory in my latest (upcoming) experiment.
Although this method works fine for me, I really wonder why the $injector isn't delaying construction of anything when it detects injection of anything that is a promise object; it would make things soooOOOOOooOOOOO much easier.
Edit: used Angular v1.2(rc2)
Delaying showing the route is sure to lead to an asynchronous tangle... why not simply track the loading status of your main entity and use that in the view. For example in your controller you might use both the success and error callbacks on ngResource:
$scope.httpStatus = 0; // in progress
$scope.projects = $resource.query('/projects', function() {
$scope.httpStatus = 200;
}, function(response) {
$scope.httpStatus = response.status;
});
Then in the view you could do whatever:
<div ng-show="httpStatus == 0">
Loading
</div>
<div ng-show="httpStatus == 200">
Real stuff
<div ng-repeat="project in projects">
...
</div>
</div>
<div ng-show="httpStatus >= 400">
Error, not found, etc. Could distinguish 4xx not found from
5xx server error even.
</div>
I worked from Misko's code above and this is what I've done with it. This is a more current solution since $defer has been changed to $timeout. Substituting $timeout however will wait for the timeout period (in Misko's code, 1 second), then return the data hoping it's resolved in time. With this way, it returns asap.
function PhoneListCtrl($scope, phones) {
$scope.phones = phones;
$scope.orderProp = 'age';
}
PhoneListCtrl.resolve = {
phones: function($q, Phone) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
Phone.query(function(phones) {
deferred.resolve(phones);
});
return deferred.promise;
}
}
Using AngularJS 1.1.5
Updating the 'phones' function in Justen's answer using AngularJS 1.1.5 syntax.
Original:
phones: function($q, Phone) {
var deferred = $q.defer();
Phone.query(function(phones) {
deferred.resolve(phones);
});
return deferred.promise;
}
Updated:
phones: function(Phone) {
return Phone.query().$promise;
}
Much shorter thanks to the Angular team and contributors. :)
This is also the answer of Maximilian Hoffmann. Apparently that commit made it into 1.1.5.
You can use $routeProvider resolve property to delay route change until data is loaded.
angular.module('app', ['ngRoute']).
config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider, EntitiesCtrlResolve, EntityCtrlResolve) {
$routeProvider.
when('/entities', {
templateUrl: 'entities.html',
controller: 'EntitiesCtrl',
resolve: EntitiesCtrlResolve
}).
when('/entity/:entityId', {
templateUrl: 'entity.html',
controller: 'EntityCtrl',
resolve: EntityCtrlResolve
}).
otherwise({redirectTo: '/entities'});
}]);
Notice that the resolve property is defined on route.
EntitiesCtrlResolve and EntityCtrlResolve is constant objects defined in same file as EntitiesCtrl and EntityCtrl controllers.
// EntitiesCtrl.js
angular.module('app').constant('EntitiesCtrlResolve', {
Entities: function(EntitiesService) {
return EntitiesService.getAll();
}
});
angular.module('app').controller('EntitiesCtrl', function(Entities) {
$scope.entities = Entities;
// some code..
});
// EntityCtrl.js
angular.module('app').constant('EntityCtrlResolve', {
Entity: function($route, EntitiesService) {
return EntitiesService.getById($route.current.params.projectId);
}
});
angular.module('app').controller('EntityCtrl', function(Entity) {
$scope.entity = Entity;
// some code..
});
I like darkporter's idea because it will be easy for a dev team new to AngularJS to understand and worked straight away.
I created this adaptation which uses 2 divs, one for loader bar and another for actual content displayed after data is loaded. Error handling would be done elsewhere.
Add a 'ready' flag to $scope:
$http({method: 'GET', url: '...'}).
success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
$scope.dataForView = data;
$scope.ready = true; // <-- set true after loaded
})
});
In html view:
<div ng-show="!ready">
<!-- Show loading graphic, e.g. Twitter Boostrap progress bar -->
<div class="progress progress-striped active">
<div class="bar" style="width: 100%;"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div ng-show="ready">
<!-- Real content goes here and will appear after loading -->
</div>
See also: Boostrap progress bar docs
I liked above answers and learned a lot from them but there is something that is missing in most of the above answers.
I was stuck in a similar scenario where I was resolving url with some data that is fetched in the first request from the server. Problem I faced was what if the promise is rejected.
I was using a custom provider which used to return a Promise which was resolved by the resolve of $routeProvider at the time of config phase.
What I want to stress here is the concept of when it does something like this.
It sees the url in url bar and then respective when block in called controller and view is referred so far so good.
Lets say I have following config phase code.
App.when('/', {
templateUrl: '/assets/campaigns/index.html',
controller: 'CampaignListCtr',
resolve : {
Auth : function(){
return AuthServiceProvider.auth('campaign');
}
}
})
// Default route
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/segments'
});
On root url in browser first block of run get called otherwise otherwise gets called.
Let's imagine a scenario I hit rootUrl in address bar AuthServicePrivider.auth() function gets called.
Lets say Promise returned is in reject state what then???
Nothing gets rendered at all.
Otherwise block will not get executed as it is for any url which is not defined in the config block and is unknown to angularJs config phase.
We will have to handle the event that gets fired when this promise is not resolved. On failure $routeChangeErorr gets fired on $rootScope.
It can be captured as shown in code below.
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeError', function(event, current, previous, rejection){
// Use params in redirection logic.
// event is the routeChangeEvent
// current is the current url
// previous is the previous url
$location.path($rootScope.rootPath);
});
IMO It's generally a good idea to put event tracking code in run block of application. This code run just after the config phase of the application.
App.run(['$routeParams', '$rootScope', '$location', function($routeParams, $rootScope, $location){
$rootScope.rootPath = "my custom path";
// Event to listen to all the routeChangeErrors raised
// by the resolve in config part of application
$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeError', function(event, current, previous, rejection){
// I am redirecting to rootPath I have set above.
$location.path($rootScope.rootPath);
});
}]);
This way we can handle promise failure at the time of config phase.
I have had a complex multi-level sliding panel interface, with disabled screen layer. Creating directive on disable screen layer that would create click event to execute the state like
$state.go('account.stream.social.view');
were producing a flicking effect. history.back() instead of it worked ok, however its not always back in history in my case. SO what I find out is that if I simply create attribute href on my disable screen instead of state.go , worked like a charm.
<a class="disable-screen" back></a>
Directive 'back'
app.directive('back', [ '$rootScope', function($rootScope) {
return {
restrict : 'A',
link : function(scope, element, attrs) {
element.attr('href', $rootScope.previousState.replace(/\./gi, '/'));
}
};
} ]);
app.js I just save previous state
app.run(function($rootScope, $state) {
$rootScope.$on("$stateChangeStart", function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
$rootScope.previousState = fromState.name;
$rootScope.currentState = toState.name;
});
});
One possible solution might be to use the ng-cloak directive with the element where we are using the models e.g.
<div ng-cloak="">
Value in myModel is: {{myModel}}
</div>
I think this one takes least effort.