AngularJS - use routeProvider "when" variables to construct templateUrl name?

Question

So this is what I am trying to accomplish:

'use strict';

var app = angular.module('myModule', ['ngRoute']);

app.config(function($routeProvider) {
  $routeProvider
    .when('/', {
      redirectTo: '/pages'
    })
    .when('/pages/:pageName', {
      templateUrl: 'views/pages/'+pageName+'html',
      controller: 'MainController'
    });
});

Basically, I want to use the uri to determine which template is used. Currently I get an error that pageName is not defined which I understand. What would be a different way of doing this? Thanks!

dfsq · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-17T13:50:58.060

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templateUrl can be a function accepting object of route parameters:

.when('/pages/:pageName', {
    templateUrl: function(params) {
        return 'views/pages/' + params.pageName + '.html';
    },
    controller: 'MainController'
});

edited Feb 17 '14 at 13:50

answered Dec 17 '13 at 15:38

dfsq

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Thank you. this worked like a charm. Only one thing - missing a . between the ' and the html like so : + '.html' .Thank you again! – Georgi Angelov Dec 17 '13 at 15:46

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '14 at 08:17

templateUrl can be use as function with returning generated URL. We can manipulate url with passing argument which takes routeParams.

See the example.

.when('/:screenName/list',{
    templateUrl: function(params){
         return params.screenName +'/listUI'
    }
})

Hope this help.

AngularJS - use routeProvider "when" variables to construct templateUrl name?

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