How to Reset Controls on Navigation?

[Former Member]

I have a UI5 app with three different pages.

1. User inputs something on the first page, clicks a button and goes to the second page.
2. There they press another button and go to the third page.
3. There they can go back to previous pages.

The problem I have is that when trying to go back to a page for the second time, the onInit()function doesn't get called. It seems like the browser caches the data on the screen and does not reset the values as I want it to. I have to refresh the browser in order for that to work.

Here is my routing configuration:

routing: {
  config: {
    routerClass: "sap.m.routing.Router",
    viewPath: "BatchProcessing.view",
    controlId: "rootControl",
    controlAggregation: "pages",
    viewType: "XML"
  },
  routes: [
    {
      name: "page1",
      pattern: "",
      target: "page1"
    },
    {
      name: "page2",
      pattern: "Page2",
      target: "page2"
    },
    {
      name: "page3",
      pattern: "Page3",
      target: "page3"
    }
  ],
  targets: {
    page1: {
      viewName: "InputsView",
      viewLevel: 0
    },
    page2: {
      viewName: "TableView",
      viewLevel: 1
    },
    page3: {
      viewName: "DetailsView",
      viewLevel: 3
    }
  }
}

Here are the code snippets for the different controllers where I switch pages

controller 1

onToPage2 : function () {
  this.getOwnerComponent().getRouter().navTo("page2");
},

controller 2

onToPage1 : function () {
  // data = [];
  this.getOwnerComponent().getRouter().navTo("page1");
},

controller 3

onToPage2 : function () {
  this.getOwnerComponent().getRouter().navTo("page2");
},

[irfan_gokak · Accepted solution]

Hi Peter,

In all 3 controllers in init() method you have to register handleroutematched() method. You can do it as below.

Init : function(){
    this.getRouter().getRoute("model").attachPatternMatched(this._onObjectMatched, this);
}

// Define this method in same controller and check for the route
_onObjectMatched : function (oEvent) {
    var oParameters = oEvent.getParameters();
    if (oParameters.name == "model") {
	// if route matched do your actions
    }
}

[junwu]

oninit only get called once.

you can routematched event to do some additional work after each naviation

[Former Member]

yup, I was just testing that. That seems to be the way to go