In an angular app I'm working on, I'd like there to be an abstract parent state which must resolve certain dependencies for all of its children's states. Specifically, I'd like all states requiring an authenticated user to inherit that dependency from some authroot state.
I'm running into issues having the parent dependency not always being re-resolved. Ideally, I'd like to have the parent state check that the user is still logged in for any child state automatically. In the docs, it says
Child states will inherit resolved dependencies from parent state(s), which they can overwrite.
I'm finding that the parent dependency is only being re-resolved if I enter any child state from a state outside the parent, but not if moving between sibling states.
In this example, if you move between states authroot.testA and authroot.testB, the GetUser method is only called once. When you move to the other state and back, it will get run again.
I am able to put the User dependency on each of the child states to ensure the method is called every time you enter any of those states, but that seems to defeat the purpose of the inherited dependency.
Am I understanding the docs incorrectly? Is there a way to force the parent state to re-resolve its dependencies even when the state changes between siblings?
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.1/angular.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular-ui-router/0.2.0/angular-ui-router.min.js"></script>
<script>
(function(ng) {
var app = ng.module("Test", ["ui.router"]);
app.config(["$stateProvider", "$urlRouterProvider", function(sp, urp) {
urp.otherwise("/testA");
sp.state("authroot", {
abstract: true,
url: "",
template: "<div ui-view></div>",
resolve: {User: ["UserService", function(UserService) {
console.log("Resolving dependency...");
return UserService.GetUser();
}]}
});
sp.state("authroot.testA", {
url: "/testA",
template: "<h1>Test A {{User|json}}</h1>",
controller: "TestCtrl"
});
sp.state("authroot.testB", {
url: "/testB",
template: "<h1>Test B {{User|json}}</h1>",
controller: "TestCtrl"
});
sp.state("other", {
url: "/other",
template: "<h1>Other</h1>",
});
}]);
app.controller("TestCtrl", ["$scope", "User", function($scope, User) {$scope.User = User;}]);
app.factory("UserService", ["$q", "$timeout", function($q, $timeout) {
function GetUser() {
console.log("Getting User information from server...");
var d = $q.defer();
$timeout(function(){
console.log("Got User info.");
d.resolve({UserName:"JohnDoe1", OtherData: "asdf"});
}, 500);
return d.promise;
};
return {
GetUser: GetUser
};
}]);
})(window.angular);
</script>
</head>
<body ng-app="Test">
<a ui-sref="authroot.testA">Goto A</a>
<a ui-sref="authroot.testB">Goto B</a>
<a ui-sref="other">Goto Other</a>
<div ui-view>Loading...</div>
</body>
</html>
