enable fuzzy matching for $state.is

[samccone]

For example it would be quite nice to be able to do

if (!$state.is("foo.*")) {
}

instead of

if (!$state.is("foo.tap") && !$state.is("foo.bar" )) {
}

I would be more than willing to PR this in, wanted to get your thoughts before I implemented.

[nateabele]

$state.is() already has glob support, I believe.

[samccone]

seems like maybe not

ui-router/src/stateFilters.js

Line 13 in 8ec0a61

return $state.is(state);

also
#244

[timkindberg]

Oh but it does sir: http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router.state.$state#includes

[samccone]

Includes vs is :)

[timkindberg]

is to me means strict equality... so using globs alongside a concept of strict equality makes no sense, thats why we put that functionality into includes.

[alexey-sh]

doesn't work when:
state: base (abstract)
state: base.auth (abstract)
state: base.auth.login (common state)

$state.is('base.auth.*') => undefined
$state.is('base.auth') => false
$state.is('base') => false
$state.is('base.*') => undefined
$state.is('') => undefined

;(

> $state.current
<- {name: "", url: "^", views: null, abstract: true}

state is empty only during executing run angular function

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