If you are willing to follow a common convention, I have found a very easy way to reload the current view (including all of its parameters). I tested this using Ionic3, but it should still apply in Ionic 2
Move all of your initialization code for every page into ionViewDidLoad()
, which is run ONCE on the first time the view is loaded
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, NavParams } from 'ionic-angular';
import { Api } from '../../providers/api';
import { Movie } from '../../interfaces/movie';
@Component({
selector: 'page-movie-info',
templateUrl: 'movie-info.html'
})
export class MovieInfoPage {
constructor(
public navCtrl: NavController,
public navParams: NavParams,
public api: Api
) {
}
/**
* Run all page initialization in this method so that this page
* can be refreshed simply by re-calling this function
*/
ionViewDidLoad() {
//access any parameters provided to the page through navParams.
var movieId = this.navParams.data.movieId;
this.api.movies.getById(movieId).then((movie) => {
this.movie = movie;
});
}
public movie: Movie;
}
From anywhere else in the app, you can reload the current view with this code
//get the currently active page component
var component = this.navController.getActive().instance;
//re-run the view load function if the page has one declared
if (component.ionViewDidLoad) {
component.ionViewDidLoad();
}