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Cameron
Cameron

Reputation: 2965

From the router, how can I route to a completely different parent route in EmberJS

Suppose I have the following URL.

www.mywebsite.com/foo/abc/def

And in my router, it might look something like this:

this.route('foo',  function() {
    this.route('fooo');
    this.route('foooo');
    this.route('abc', function() {
      this.route('def');
      this.route('def, {path: 'def.html'});
       // Some other routes
    }
    // Some other routes
}
// Some other Routes

So what happens now if I want my foo/abc/def to redirect to somewhere COMPLETELY different. Like, for example, bar/uvw/xyz. How can I redirect to there? Is there a way to do it from a the router? I could write transition logic within the /foo/abc/def route but that seems a bit messy.

The reason I need to do this is because I'm transitioning one of our companies websites to a new Ember site. And we want to change the routes to some of our products but make sure people who have saved links to those webpages won't get dead-links.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (2)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 18682

You can't do that from the router. You need to place your redirects inside JavaScript code of your Route.

As @locks suggested it might be a good place for you to start with reading Redirecting guides.

Upvotes: 2

Chris Peters
Chris Peters

Reputation: 18090

I know that this isn't always an option, but you may want to look at having the web server do this (nginx, Apache, S3, whatever you're using).

The main benefit of this is that your Ember app doesn't need to load at all to make the redirection decision. Also, it keeps your Ember router code cleaner, not worrying about representing the old application's URL structure.

Upvotes: 1

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