How to reload the current state?

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Holland Risley picture Holland Risley · Feb 11, 2014 · Viewed 459.6k times · Source

I'm using Angular UI Router and would like to reload the current state and refresh all data / re-run the controllers for the current state and it's parent.

I have 3 state levels: directory.organisations.details

directory.organisations contains a table with a list of organisations. Clicking on an item in the table loads directory.organisations.details with $StateParams passing the ID of the item. So in the details state I load the details for this item, edit them and then save data. All fine so far.

Now I need to reload this state and refresh all the data.

I have tried:

 $state.transitionTo('directory.organisations');

Which goes to the parent state but doesn't reload the controller, I guess because the path hasn't changed. Ideally I just want to stay in the directory.organisations.details state and refresh all data in the parent too.

I have also tried:

$state.reload()

I have seen this on the API WIKI for $state.reload "(bug with controllers reinstantiating right now, fixing soon)."

Any help would be appreciated?

Answer

Rohan picture Rohan · May 12, 2014

I found this to be the shortest working way to refresh with ui-router:

$state.go($state.current, {}, {reload: true}); //second parameter is for $stateParams

Update for newer versions: 

$state.reload();

Which is an alias for:

$state.transitionTo($state.current, $stateParams, { 
  reload: true, inherit: false, notify: true
});

Documentation: https://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router.state.$state#methods_reload

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