AngularJS load different data to same partial based on URL - angularjs

Question

The problem I'm having here is not being able to find the right question to ask.
I'd like to use a single partial and populate it with different data based on a url. The url would look something like this
localhost:8080/#/users/USER_ID
Where users directs to a user profile partial, and corresponding controller, and USER_ID would be sent in to an HTTP request to retrieve user data that would then populate the user profile partial.
Any direction in solving this is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you are using ui-router which I highly recommend:
$stateProvider
.state('users', {
url:'/users/:userId',
templateUrl: 'user.html',
controller:'UserCtrl'
})
You can then access the userId in your controller:
App.controller('UserCtrl', ['$scope', '$stateParams', '$state', 'User', function($scope, $stateParams, $state, User) {
'use strict';
/* controller code */
var req = User.$find($stateParams.userId);
}]);
I am also using angular-rest-mod to make HTTP calls to an api when I do User.$find(id)

Answer 2

I found a solution that was a lot more straight forward than I had anticipated
app.js
$routeProvider.
when('/user/:id', {
templateUrl: 'user.html',
controller: 'userController'
});
Then in the implementation of userController, $routeParams can be used to retrieve the value of id from the url.

Answer 3

Okay so I would probably go like this. First I would recommend Ui-Router instead of ngRoute this allows you to create your states for example
$stateProvider
// setup an abstract state for the tabs directive
.state('A', {
params: [A,B,C,D,E],
url: "/A",
templateUrl: "templates/YourView.html",
controller: "YourController"
})
.state('B', {
params: [F,G,H,I,J],
url: "/B",
templateUrl: "templates/YourView.html",
controller: "YourController"
})
Basically this says when your Url is "/A" the "YourController" is used and the YourView.html is used so If I understood correct you have 1 view where you want to show different data depending on the Url.By Injecting 'ui.router'into your module and $state into your Controller you can access $state.current.params
Example Controller
.controller('ExampleController', ['$rootScope', '$scope', '$state', function ($rootScope, $scope, $state){
//Here you get your params
//This will return you either [A,B,C,D,E] or [F,G,H,I,J] depending if Url is /A or /B
$scope.showList = $state.current.params;
//Another Possibility with this is to listen for a StateChange
$scope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (ev, to, toParams, from, fromParams) {
//Here you can access all Params from the state you just left to the state you are going
});
}]);
Now you can just show this in the YourView.html like this
<div ng-repeat="item in showList">
<p>{{item}}</p>
</div>
So If your at /A the list shows A,B,C,D,E and if you are on /B it shows F,G,H,I,J
I hope this was helpful