AngularJS - get the list of defined routes - $routeProvider - angularjs

Question

I am trying to implement named routes, so I don't have to write the whole path (often changes).
I was thinking I could get away with writing a service that would return the list of defined routes and a filter that would transform object to aroute
The use example would look like:
<a ng-href="{id:1}|route:'detail'">Click here!</a>
Provided I have added name:'detail' to my route definition, this would generate the following result :
Click here!
I think this is quite simple, but:
How can I get the list of defined routes ?
I was thinking I can make use of routeProvider , but AFAIK it has no public methods or attributes I can access.

Answer 1

turns out this is pretty straight forward:
http://plunker.co/edit/GNZxcvK4hfQ9LrlSvasK?p=preview
Components.filter('url', function ($route) {
function resolveRoute(options, route) {
var parts = route.split('/');
for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
var part = parts[i];
if (part[0] === ':') {
parts[i] = options[part.replace(':', '')];
if (parts[i] == undefined) throw Error('Attribute \'' + part + '\' was not given for route \'' + route + '\'')
}
}
return parts.join('/');
}
return function (options, routeName) {
var routes = [];
angular.forEach($route.routes,function (config,route) {
if(config.name===routeName){
routes.push(route);
}
});
if (routes.length == 1) {
return resolveRoute(options, routes[0]);
}
else if (routes.length == 0) {
throw Error('Route ' + routeName + ' not found');
}
throw Error('Multiple routes matching ' + routeName + ' were found');
}
});