AngularJS location not changing the path

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I m having an issue with changing the URL of the page after a form has been submitted   Here s the flow of my app    Routes are set  URL is recognized to some form page  Page loads  controller sets variables  directives are fired  A special form directive is fired which performs a special form submission using AJAX  After the AJAX is performed  Angular doesn t take care of the AJAX  then a callback is fired and the directive calls the  scope onAfterSubmit function which sets the location    The problem is that after setting the location the nothing happens  I ve tried setting the location param to   as well    Nope  I ve also tried not submitting the form  Nothing works   I ve tested to see if the code reaches the onAfterSubmit function  which it does    My only thought is that somehow the scope of the function is changed  since its called from a directive   but then again how can it call onAfterSubmit if the scope changed    Here s my code  var Ctrl   function  scope   location   http       http get   resources      params id     edit json   success function data         scope resource   data            scope onAfterSubmit   function          location path      replace           Ctrl  inject      scope    location    http      Can someone help me out please

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I had to embed my  location path   statement like this because my digest was still running          function routeMe data                                var waitForRender   function                      if   http pendingRequests length  gt  0                         timeout waitForRender                     else                        location path data                                                 timeout waitForRender

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In my opinion many of the answers here seem a little bit hacky  e g   apply   or  timeout   since messing around with  apply   can lead to unwanted errors   Usually  when the  location doesn t work it means that something was not implemented the angular way   In this particular question  the problem seems to be in the non-angular AJAX part  I had a similiar problem  where the redirection using  location should take place after a promise resolved  I would like to illustrate the problem on this example   The old code   taskService createTask data  then function code                location path  task     code              function error        Note  taskService createTask returns a promise    q - the angular way to use promises   let dataPromises    taskService createTask data             q all dataPromises  then function response                    let code   response 0                    location path  task     code                               function error        Using  q to resolve the promise solved the redirection problem   More on the  q service  https   docs angularjs org api ng service  q

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I had this same problem  but my call to  location was ALREADY within a digest  Calling  apply   just gave a  digest already in process error   This trick worked  and be sure to inject  location into your controller     timeout function         location      1     Though no idea why this was necessary

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setTimeout function      location path   abc      0     it should solve your problem

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This wroks for me in CoffeeScript          location path   url path    scope  apply   if    scope   phase

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Instead of  location path      to change or refresh the page  I used the service  window  In Angular this service is used as interface to the window object  and the window object contains a property location which enables you to handle operations related to the location or URL stuff    For example  with window location you can assign a new page  like this    window location assign         Or refresh it  like this     window location reload      It worked for me  It s a little bit different from you expect but works for the given goal

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I had a similar problem some days ago  In my case the problem was that I changed things with a 3rd party library  jQuery to be precise  and in this case even though calling functions and setting variable works Angular doesn t always recognize that there are changes thus it never digests       apply   is used to execute an expression in angular from outside of the angular framework   For example from browser DOM events  setTimeout  XHR or third party libraries     Try to use  scope  apply   right after you have changed the location and called replace   to let Angular know that things have changed

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In my case  the problem was the optional parameter indicator      missing in my template configuration   For example    when   abc  id          templateUrl   views abc html       controller   abcControl        location path   abc      Without the interrogation character the route obviously would not change suppressing the route parameter

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If any of you is using the Angular-ui   ui-router  use  state go  yourstate   instead of  location  It did the trick for me

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