Using ui-router with Bootstrap-ui modal

Question

I know this has been covered many times and most articles refer to this bit of code: Modal window with custom URL in AngularJS

But I just don\'t get it. I don\'t fin

Answer 1

Here is a provider that improves @nathan-williams solution by passing resolve section down to the controller:

.provider('modalState', ['$stateProvider', function($stateProvider) {
  var provider = this;

  this.$get = function() {
    return provider;
  }

  this.state = function(stateName, options) {
    var modalInstance;

    options.onEnter = onEnter;
    options.onExit = onExit;
    if (!options.resolve) options.resolve = [];

    var resolveKeys = angular.isArray(options.resolve) ? options.resolve : Object.keys(options.resolve);
    $stateProvider.state(stateName, omit(options, ['template', 'templateUrl', 'controller', 'controllerAs']));

    onEnter.$inject = ['$uibModal', '$state', '$timeout'].concat(resolveKeys);
    function onEnter($modal, $state, $timeout) {
      options.resolve = {};

      for (var i = onEnter.$inject.length - resolveKeys.length; i < onEnter.$inject.length; i++) {
        (function(key, val) {
          options.resolve[key] = function() { return val }
        })(onEnter.$inject[i], arguments[i]);
      }

      $timeout(function() { // to let populate $stateParams
        modalInstance = $modal.open(options);
        modalInstance.result.finally(function() {
          $timeout(function() { // to let populate $state.$current
            if ($state.$current.name === stateName)
              $state.go(options.parent || '^');
          });
        });
      });
    }

    function onExit() {
      if (modalInstance)
        modalInstance.close();
    }

    return provider;
  }
}]);

function omit(object, forbidenKeys) {
  var prunedObject = {};
  for (var key in object)
    if (forbidenKeys.indexOf(key) === -1)
      prunedObject[key] = object[key];
  return prunedObject;
}

then use it like that:

.config(['modalStateProvider', function(modalStateProvider) {
  modalStateProvider
    .state('...', {
      url: '...',
      templateUrl: '...',
      controller: '...',
      resolve: {
        ...
      }
    })
}]);