ANGULAR-UI-ROUTER: Resolve state from URL

Question

I\'m making an app with dynamical states, and sometimes I need to resolve the state name from the url.

e.g.: I have /dashboard/user/12268 and I need to

Answer 1

Finally I've had to make a small modification on ui-router's $state service to get to the solution.

It results that the states stored in the service have more information that the one given on the $state.get() method. So I iterated over them to get a state that matches with my URL:

/**
 * @ngdoc function
 * @name ui.router.state.$state#fromUrl
 * @methodOf ui.router.state.$state
 * 
 * @description
 * A method to resolve a state and its parameters from a given URL
 *
 * @returns {boolean} Returns a state that matches with the given URL, or undefined if no match
 */
$state.fromUrl = function(url) {
  if(!angular.isString(url)) {
    //Only valid strings allowed
    return undefined;
  }
  
  
  var keys = objectKeys(states);
  //Iterate over all states
  for(var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
    var state = states[keys[i]];
    var stateArgs = state.url.exec(url);

    //If the state's URL does not match then stateArgs will be false
    if(!!stateArgs) {
      return {
        name: state.name,
        args: stateArgs
      }
    }
  }

  return undefined;
};

Regards,
Alx