`ui-router` $stateParams vs. $state.params

Question

With ui-router, it\'s possible to inject either $state or $stateParams into a controller to get access to parameters in the URL. Howev

Answer 1

EDIT: This answer is correct for version 0.2.10. As @Alexander Vasilyev pointed out it doesn't work in version 0.2.14.

Another reason to use $state.params is when you need to extract query parameters like this:

$stateProvider.state('a', {
  url: 'path/:id/:anotherParam/?yetAnotherParam',
  controller: 'ACtrl',
});

module.controller('ACtrl', function($stateParams, $state) {
  $state.params; // has id, anotherParam, and yetAnotherParam
  $stateParams;  // has id and anotherParam
}