AngularJs $location.path with full url
angularjs
Solution
I ran into this same problem when having Angular preventDefault $locationChangeStart events, force a save, and only redirect upon success. I define the following function in the body of the controller:
var baseLen = $location.absUrl().length - $location.url().length;
function getPath(fullUrl) {
return fullUrl.substring(baseLen);
}
It doesn't seem like a clean solution, but as a work around, it does the job. A RegEx might work better for you, if you don't know that your URLs are pointing to the same site.
Problem
I want to route the user to an url if he clicks ok in a modal. In my controller i receive urls like ``` var newUrl = http://localhost:3000/#/dashboard var newUrl = http://localhost:3000/#/users ``` as variable. If i then use ``` $location.path(newUrl); ``` it does not work. I also tried ``` $location.url(newUrl); ``` but my URL gets encoded like this. ``` http://localhost:3000/#/#%2Fdashboard ``` Is there a way to get only the path of the url? Edit this code is part of a service. A user make some inputs in a form and clicks on another link for example in the menu. Then a popup appears where he is asked to skip his form changes. If he clicks yes i get the requested url. This is from my development environment on the server of course it will be another url. So i can not just use ``` $location.path("/users") ``` for example