I have a standard angular page that is not associated with any ui.router functionality(index.html). From that page I click a link that triggers an Angular call and then after some operation the flow needs to be redirected to a page inside a folder that is using angular-ui.route template.
I have created a Plunker that represents this: http://plnkr.co/edit/7UQTlMRQBMXGaRdHlPfs?p=preview (current Plunker is working but there's a loop on first page trying to call default state created with $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('events');)
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="app">
<head>
<script data-require="angular.js@1.3.16" data-semver="1.3.16" src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.3.16/angular.js"></script>
<script data-require="ui-router@*" data-semver="0.2.15" src="//rawgit.com/angular-ui/ui-router/0.2.15/release/angular-ui-router.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="app.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-controller="LoginController as lgCtrl">
<h1>This page does not use ui.router</h1>
<a href="manage/home.html" ng-click="goToEvents()">Login</a>
</body>
</html>
The page with ui-view tag is inside a manage folder: manage/home.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="app">
<head>
<script src="https://code.angularjs.org/1.3.16/angular.js" data-semver="1.3.16" data-require="angular.js@1.3.16"></script>
<script data-require="ui-router@*" data-semver="0.2.15" src="//rawgit.com/angular-ui/ui-router/0.2.15/release/angular-ui-router.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../app.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-controller="EventsController as evtCtlr">
<h1>Hello manage/home.html</h1>
<div ui-view></div>
</body>
</html>
The templateUrl page to be inserted is: manage/events.html
<div ng-controller="EventsController as evtCtrl">
<h3>Events Page</h3>
<div>Some user email</div>
</div>
app.js
'use strict';
(function () {
var app = angular.module('app', ['ui.router']);
/**
* Configuration for ui-router module. Handles navigation based on app states.
*/
app.config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('events');
$stateProvider
.state('events', {
url: '/events',
views:{
'@manage/home':{
templateUrl: 'manage/events.html'
}
}
});
});
app.controller('LoginController', ['$scope','$window', '$state',
function($scope, $window, $state){
$scope.goToEvents = function(){
console.log('trying to load events');
//this call doesn't work, 404 - It should?? -->> see reference
//https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/URL-Routing
$window.location.href = 'manage/home.html/events';
//don't work
//$state.transitionTo('events');
//also don't work
//$state.go('events');
};
}]);
app.controller('EventsController', [function(){
console.log('EventsController');
}]);
})();
I have created a plunker that represents this: http://plnkr.co/edit/7UQTlMRQBMXGaRdHlPfs?p=preview
I have tried different ways of moving from the first non ui.router page but none worked so far.
What's the best way of doing this?
Firstly , do not inject $state as dependency in the LoginController as the view related to this controller isn't an UI route. Adding the $state dependency causes the loop that you are seeing in your example as UI-Router then considers this view a route. As no state matches this route , it tries to load the default state , whose template has a relative URL , which then looks it up inside wrong directory of Plunkr , which causes 404 error.
Secondly , the URL to redirect should via location.href should have a hash otherwise it will also give 404
The code for the LoginController
app.controller('LoginController', ['$scope', '$window',
function($scope, $window) {
$scope.goToEvents = function() {
//Do Something
$window.location.href = 'manage/home.html#/events';
};
}
]);
Check the working example at http://plnkr.co/edit/K2iBYu?p=preview