Photoswipe query string causes problems with UI Router

[rhclayto]

When I display an image with the Photoswipe UI, it appends a &gid=x&pid=x query string to the URL. This causes UI Router to see it as a different URL than the base URL of the page as defined in that URL's .state, causing it to immediately redirect to the URL defined in $urlRouterProvider.otherwise().

I can turn this off with Photoswipe's history option, but is there any way to keep the gid&pid history while using this with UI Router?

[m00s]

Hi @rhclayto, I use the history option to avoid this behavior because I don't need history right now, but we definitely need a different solution.
I'll spend some time on this later to see what can be done, in the mean time we can keep this open to discuss about it

[rhclayto]

This issue on Ui-Router's Github page seems to be talking about this problem with UI Router in general & may be of interest:

angular-ui/ui-router#64

There are a few attempted solutions there. I tried the simple one of using reloadOnSearch: false in the $state configuration, & it allowed Photoswipe to change the URL without UI Router trying to change the state; however, using that URL as a bookmark for example isn't useful because using the URL with the parameters doesn't actually activate Photoswipe, you just get the base view that Photoswipe is part of.