Angular Route Infinite Loop

Question

For some reason when I have a dynamic property in my route and access that page I get stuck in an infinite loop where that page will continuously request itself.

.config(["$routeProvider", "$locationProvider", function($routeProvider, $locationProvider)
{
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

    $routeProvider.when("/", {
        templateUrl: "pages/index.html",
        controller: "IndexCtrl"
    }).when("/listhome", {
        templateUrl: "pages/listhome.html",
        controller: "ListHomeCtrl"
    }).when("/profile", {
        templateUrl: "pages/profile.html",
        controller: "ProfileCtrl"
    }).when("/newlist", {
        templateUrl: "pages/newlist.html",
        controller: "NewListCtrl"
    }).when("/userlists/:id", {
        templateUrl: "pages/userlists.html",
        controller: "UserListsCtrl"
    }).otherwise({
        redirectTo: "/"
    });

The route I'm looking at is the /userlists/:id route. The controller for that route is-

TopTenApp.controller("UserListsCtrl", ["$scope","$routeParams", function($scope, $routeParams)
{
    console.log($routeParams);
    $scope.lists = [];
}]);

And when I access /userlists/9 I see-

Object {id: "9"}

Being logged every 3 seconds and the page freezes. This seems to happen whenever there is a forward slash after the location ("/userslists/" instead of "/userlists").

Does anyone know the cause of this?

Answer 1

Silly me I realized the problem. I guess it makes sense but the template url needs to have a forward slash in front of it when the page is multiple "directories" deep.

.config(["$routeProvider", "$locationProvider", function($routeProvider, $locationProvider)
{
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

    $routeProvider.when("/", {
        templateUrl: "/pages/index.html",
        controller: "IndexCtrl"
    }).when("/listhome", {
        templateUrl: "/pages/listhome.html",
        controller: "ListHomeCtrl"
    }).when("/profile", {
        templateUrl: "/pages/profile.html",
        controller: "ProfileCtrl"
    }).when("/newlist", {
        templateUrl: "/pages/newlist.html",
        controller: "NewListCtrl"
    }).when("/userlists/:id", {
        templateUrl: "/pages/userlists.html",
        controller: "UserListsCtrl"
    }).otherwise({
        redirectTo: "/"
    });
}]);

Hopefully that helps someone else with a similar problem.