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JavaScript

Posted by Jonas Sabim
Jonas Sabim
Courses Plus Student 30 Points

$state.go not redirecting

im trying to redirect to a specific page with a given id, but is not working, it says that cannot resolve the state.

My url example:

http://localhost/#/app/lab/edit/table/101

My js:

$state.go('app.lab.edit.table',$stateParams.calculationId); $stateParams.calculationId is my id numer (101).

Error Message:

Error: Could not resolve 'app.lab.edit.table' from state 'app.lab.result.existing' StateParams Object:

Object {calculationId: "101", calculation: null, fromSave: false} What im doing wrong?

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
227,141 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
227,141 Points

:x: A URL referencing "localhost" will not work for anyone other than yourself.

1 Answer

Erik Nemesis
Erik Nemesis
13,356 Points
Erik Nemesis
Erik Nemesis
13,356 Points

Probably that you are trying to call $state.go on an internal ui-view that is not relative to the state you call state.go in. Let me explain:

From what I see you are in state app.lab.result.existing, which means that your html is something of the sort (handled by $stateProvider.states)

<!-- ui view for "app" -->
<ui-view>
  ...
  <!-- ui view for lab -->
  <ui-view>
      ...
      <!-- ui view for result, controller: ResultController -->
      <ui-view>
           ...
           <!-- ui view for existing, controller: ExistingController -->
           <ui-view>
            This is the content for existing
           </ui-view>
        </ui-view>
    </ui-view>
</ui-view>

However I dont know your code but, if you try to go to app.lab.edit.table from your ExistingController, basically ui router will try to resolve each of the parent states, that is "app", "lab", "edit" and "table". However, from your current point of view the <ui-view> for edit is unavailable, because it is instead the ui-view for result. So ui router cannot switch states.

Let's do an analogy with Object inheritance:

Let's day we have those two inheritance chains Human -> Worker -> CompanyWorker -> Employee and

Human -> Worker -> AssociationWorker -> Volunteer

Obviously Employee and Volunteer are subclasses of Worker, but you cannot cast Volunteer to Employee and vice-versa.

This is what happens here.

Hope that helps