Transitions not working when toState was registered in runtime

[fpoljak]

This is a:

• [x] Bug Report
• [ ] Feature Request
• [ ] General Query

My version of UI-Router is: 1.0.15

Bug Report

Current Behavior:

When transitioning from any state to a state that was registered in runtime using $stateRegistry.register, no transition hooks are fired. The transition itself is successful.

EDIT:

Reopening the issue, I just reproduced it again. It seems to not work in two cases:

• when directly typing url in browser
• when navigating with back/previous buttons in browser.

Not only the hooks are not fired, the transition doesn't happen at all.

I am using Google Chrome v.70.0.3538.110 on MacOS.

Expected Behavior:

Transition hooks always should be fired (unless {'notify': false} is specified in transition parameters perhaps). Transitions should always happen (unless cancelled) no matter if the state was registered in runtime, and is the transition initiated with a link, $state.go/transitionTo, entering url in browser, or using back/forward arrows in the browser.

• [x] I have already reviewed the sample application for examples of common approaches

• [x] I believe my question can only be answered by the UI-Router maintainers

I haven't included a plunker as it would be too complicated to reproduce, as I'm getting the menu items from the api, consisting of "standard" pages, that are defined in the config phase, and plugins, custom pages users can create and put in plugins folder and register through the api, which are then registered in the run time. This worked in old versions of ui-router.

I also haven't found any similar question on Stackoverflow, nor do I believe asking one would help me (at least not as quickly as I need).

[fpoljak]

Actually the transition hooks were firing, except for when the runtime state was an initial state, and there already is an issue for initial transition hooks not firing. My apologies.

[fpoljak]

Reopening the issue, I just reproduced it again. It seems to not work in two cases:

• when directly typing url in browser
• when navigating with back/previous buttons in browser.

Not only the hooks are not fired, the transition doesn't happen at all.

I am using Google Chrome v.70.0.3538.110 on MacOS.

[fpoljak]

I also tried this with Firefox 63.0.3 for MacOS and it's the same.

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