Parse URL to get state

[ashconnell]

Is there a way to convert a url string (eg /posts/123) to a state (eg { stateName: 'app.posts', stateParams: { id: '123' } })

The API we need to interface with returns URLs instead of something more abstract such as states or type/identifier pairs

Simply calling $location.url(apiUrl) isn't feasible either as the Ionic Framework handles history internally.

It would be much cleaner to be able to go $state.parseUrl(apiUrl) to check if we even support the state before routing to it using $state.go(...)

[eddiemonge]

Simply calling $location.url(apiUrl) isn't feasible either as the Ionic Framework handles history internally.

that sounds more like a bug in ionic that should be fixed. You could always use $window.location = apiUrl

[ashconnell]

Completely missed the mark! My question was whether UI Router makes its internal ability to resolve URLs into states public?

[nateabele]

Is there a way to convert a url string (eg /posts/123) to a state (eg { stateName: 'app.posts', stateParams: { id: '123' } })

Nope, can't think of a way to do this, sorry (although it'll be possible in the new 1.0 version we're working on).

[christopherthielen]

#1651

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29892353/angular-ui-router-resolve-state-from-url/30926025#30926025

[nateabele]

Oh, nice. Totally forgot about that.

[johnib]

@nateabele , it's been a year since then.
Is there any stable version of this library that expose this functionality? map a url to a state? (for angular 1).

[graingert]

FYI you can get it with:

https://ui-router.github.io/ng1/docs/latest/classes/url.urlservice.html#match

function foo($urlService) {
  const rule = $urlService.match({ path: '/', search: '...', hash: '...' });
}