Redirecting Edit Page

Calling transitionTo() from a route or transitionToRoute() from a controller will stop any transition currently in progress and start a new one, functioning as a redirect. transitionTo() behaves exactly like the link-to helper.

If the new route has dynamic segments, you need to pass either a model or an identifier for each segment. Passing a model will skip that segment's model() hook (since the model is already loaded).

Transitioning Before the Model is Known

If you want to redirect from one route to another, you can do the transition in the beforeModel() hook of your route handler.

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Router.map(function() {
  this.route('posts');
});

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export default Ember.Route.extend({
  beforeModel() {
    this.transitionTo('posts');
  }
});

If you need to examine some application state to figure out where to redirect, you might use a service.

Transitioning After the Model is Known

If you need information about the current model in order to decide about redirection, you can use the afterModel() hook. It receives the resolved model as the first parameter and the transition as the second one. For example:

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Router.map(function() {
  this.route('posts');
  this.route('post', { path: '/post/:post_id' });
});

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export default Ember.Route.extend({
  afterModel(model, transition) {
    if (model.get('length') === 1) {
      this.transitionTo('post', model.get('firstObject'));
    }
  }
});

When transitioning to the posts route if it turns out that there is only one post, the current transition will be aborted in favor of redirecting to the PostRoute with the single post object being its model.

Child Routes

Let's change the router above to use a nested route, like this:

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Router.map(function() {
  this.route('posts', function() {
    this.route('post', { path: ':post_id' });
  });
});

If we redirect to posts.post in the afterModel hook, afterModel essentially invalidates the current attempt to enter this route. So the posts route's beforeModel, model, and afterModel hooks will fire again within the new, redirected transition. This is inefficient, since they just fired before the redirect.

Instead, we can use the redirect() method, which will leave the original transition validated, and not cause the parent route's hooks to fire again:

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export default Ember.Route.extend({
  redirect(model, transition) {
    if (model.get('length') === 1) {
      this.transitionTo('posts.post', model.get('firstObject'));
    }
  }
});