willTransition is not called on first call of transitionTo

[oliverwoodings]

I may just have a misunderstanding of the purpose of willTransition here, but I would have thought that willTransition would be called whenever a transition occurs?

Example of what I am seeing:

router.addRoute("foo", Route.extend({
  willTransition: function () {
    console.log('bar');
  }
});

router.startRouting();
router.transitionTo("foo");
router.transitionTo("foo");

The above example will only log bar once.

[KidkArolis]

Its only called when transitioning away from the route - its actually an
event and not a regular method, I should probably make it look more like
that. Activate is called when entering the route.
I'll clarify the docs.

I may just have a misunderstanding of the purpose of willTransition here,
but I would have thought that willTransition would be called whenever a
transition occurs?

Example of what I am seeing:

router.addRoute("foo", Route.extend({
willTransition: function () {
console.log('bar');
}
});

router.startRouting();
router.transitionTo("foo");
router.transitionTo("foo");

The above example will only log bar once.

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[oliverwoodings]

Ohhhh ok that makes sense. So can you do transition.abort in activate?

[KidkArolis]

I think beforeModel or model hooks are best for redirects if that's what
you're trying to do. Abort in activate might work, not sure.
On Aug 6, 2014 9:06 AM, "Oliver Woodings" notifications@github.com wrote:

Ohhhh ok that makes sense. So can you do transition.abort in activate?

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[oliverwoodings]

Yeah basically I don't want to go into a certain resource if the user isn't authenticated since fetching the models won't work unless you are authenticated

[KidkArolis]

BeforeModel is intended for such cases. Activate hook is called when all
routes have already resolved the model, so too late to redirect in your
case. Btw you don't need to abort, you can just call this.transitionTo and
the previous transition will be aborted automatically.
On Aug 6, 2014 10:02 AM, "Oliver Woodings" notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah basically I don't want to go into a certain resource if the user
isn't authenticated since fetching the models won't work unless you are
authenticated

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[KidkArolis]

I've slightly clarified the docs via @4dd29454a7ce608bfb82c943934d9f83ec98816a and added a new issue about making willTransition look more like an event #43