Load initial data

[michaelhunziker]

Hi all!

This may be a duplicate to isue #73 OR I'm really getting something wrong ;-)

I'm having trouble resolving the following issue:

My application looks like this:

• Parent State
  • Sub State 1
  • Sub State 2

At application startup, I initially need to make an http request to get the role of the current user. The role is then added as a query parameter to all sub sequent http requests. I had the feeling that I needed to do such an initial call within the resolve-part of the Parent State. Is this even the right place for such initial data requests? I can't load the data in module.run() since the states won't wait for async data loaded there. I really need all the states to wait, until the initial data has been loaded. Doing this within the resolve-part of the Parent State does obviously not work since ui-router resolves all states in parallel (as stated by Karsten in issue #73 ), thus the sub-states would crash because the role has not been loaded.

Has anyone a better idea where to load such initial data before the states are loaded?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers Michael

[ksperling]

Once #73 is fixed this should work as you intend it to. Resolves will happen in parallel as much as possible, but will still respect explicit dependencies between the functions.

[michaelhunziker]

Thanks Karsten.

I'm really looking forward to this feature ;-)