In the process of developing an AngularJS application using angular-ui-router, I encountered a situation where I have a page that lists items and allows filtering by name. The filtered results appear in the URL like /items?name=foo. Another page, such as users, allows navigation to the items page with filtering by user, for example, /items?userid=bar.
To handle this scenario, I created two states for the same page in the router configuration:
.state('index.items', {
url: '/items?:name',
controller: 'ItemCtrl as ctrl',
templateUrl: 'item/index.html',
brParent: 'index.home'
})
.state('index.itemsOfUser', {
url: '/items?:userid&:name',
controller: 'ItemCtrl as ctrl',
templateUrl: 'item/index.html',
brParent: 'index.home'
})
This setup ensures that clicking on the items page in the navbar directs to the normal items page without any filters applied.
However, I noticed that when navigating to the items page from the users section, the userid appears in the URL but $stateParams shows it as undefined. This behavior has left me puzzled as to why it is happening.
As a newcomer to Angular, I am unsure if my approach is correct or if there is a better way to achieve the desired functionality.