How to change order in ui-router?

Question

I have a cenario where I have a list and want to reorder it. I'm still new on ui-router and I couldnt figure out how to do it.

My states is something like this (with resolve to pass the data):

$stateProvider
    .state('shoppings-view', {
        url: '/shoppings/:id',
        templateUrl: 'shoppings/partial/shoppings-view/shoppings-view.html'
    }).state('shoppings-view.order', {
        url: '/:order',
        templateUrl: 'shoppings/partial/shoppings-view/shoppings-view.html'
    });

And here my controller:

angular.module('shoppings').controller('ShoppingsViewCtrl',function($scope, $stateParams){

    $scope.order = $stateParams.order != undefined ? $stateParams.order : 'id';
}

And a simple view with use a ng-repeat to show them. The problem is: if I'm in the url: /shoppings/1 and change the link to /shoppings/1/date the controller is not recalled and I can't change the order. So, how can I do something like that?

Answer 1

This scenario with ui-router could have two (if not even more) solutions. Check both of them here in this working example. We can firstly continue with your Paren-Child scenario, we just have to do few changes

// Parent - Child Scenario
.config(['$stateProvider',
  function($stateProvider) {

  // parent child
  $stateProvider
    .state('shoppings-view', {
      url: '/shoppings/:id',
      templateUrl: 'tpl.shoppings-view.html',
      controller: 'ParentCtrl',
    })
    .state('shoppings-view.order', {
      url: '/:order',
      template: '<div>some child content if needed</div>',
      controller: 'ChildCtrl',
    });

 }])
.controller('ParentCtrl', function($scope, $state, $stateParams, DataSvc) {
  $scope.data = [];
  // parent declares method on a $scope
  $scope.load = function(params){
    $scope.data = DataSvc.getAll(params)
  }
  $scope.load($stateParams);
})
.controller('ChildCtrl', function($scope, $state, $stateParams) {
  // child scope has inherit that function
  // and calls the parent to relaod with new params
  $scope.load($stateParams);
})

What we can see here, is that child gets the $scope inherited (see Understanding Scopes) and therefore has access to a parent method $scope.load($stateParams);. Whenever there is new child state with new param invoked, it calls parent to relaod the data.

Maybe not the best here, but the concept of published methods on parent $scope, available for a child(ren) is a feature I do use a lot...

Second approach could be to move all that stuff into one simple state, with more params:

// scenario with Single state
.config(['$stateProvider',
    function($stateProvider) {

  // single state
  $stateProvider
    .state('shoppings', {
      url: '/shoppings-single/:id/:order',
      templateUrl: 'tpl.shoppings-single.html',
      controller: 'SingleCtrl',
      resolve : {
        data : function($stateParams, DataSvc){
          return DataSvc.getAll($stateParams)
        }
      }
    }); 

}])
.controller('SingleCtrl', function($scope, $state, $stateParams, data) {
  $scope.data = data;
  $scope.orderBy = $stateParams.order;
})

There is nothing special, just we can see that one state can have more params (see URL Parameters)

All that together check here