View navigation history management

Authors:Yoshiroh Kamiyama

The bookmarkable feature

In Dojo Mobile 1.8, the bookmarkable function has been enhanced to be able to manage the state of multiple views. The bookmarkable feature is enabled if you require the module dojox/mobile/bookmarkable. When you make a view transition, dojox/mobile/bookmarkable searches for all the selected views in the page, and sets a new fragment id that consists of a comma-separated list of the found views (ex. #page2,bar3,view0) to the browser’s current URL. When you move back to this page, dojox/mobile/bookmarkable sees the list of selected views and restores the selected state. Note that ‘selected’ does not necessarily mean the view is ‘visible’. For example, there may be a currently hidden view that has child views. One of the child views is ‘selected’, but it is not ‘visible’ since its parent is currently hidden. Sibling views always have one and only one selected view.

Example:

<script>
    require([
        "dojox/mobile",
        "dojox/mobile/bookmarkable",
        ....
    ]);
</script>
<div id="home" data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/View">
    <ul data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/RoundRectList">
        <li data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/ListItem" data-dojo-props='moveTo:"#page1"'>
            Go to page 1
        </li>
        <li data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/ListItem" data-dojo-props='moveTo:"#page2"'>
            Go to page 2
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>

The bookmarkable feature should be able to handle cases where views are nested or split. However, it cannot support dynamic views created by ListItem and other _ItemBase-based item’s ‘url’ property. Even if the created view’s IDs are pushed to the browser URL’s fragment id, dojox/mobile/bookmarkable can never know the URL of the external content from its view id.

If you set mblForceBookmarkable:true to dojoConfig or data-dojo-config, and require dojox/mobile/bookmarkable, all the view transitions are stored in the browser history regardless of whether the value of ‘moveTo’ has the ‘#’ prefix or not. In this case, you can omit the ‘#’ prefix as shown in the example below.

<script src="../dojo.js" data-dojo-config="..., mblForceBookmarkable: true"></script>
<script>
    require([
        "dojox/mobile",
        "dojox/mobile/bookmarkable",
        ....
    ]);
</script>
<div id="home" data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/View">
    <ul data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/RoundRectList">
        <li data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/ListItem" data-dojo-props='moveTo:"page1"'>
            Go to page 1
        </li>
        <li data-dojo-type="dojox/mobile/ListItem" data-dojo-props='moveTo:"page2"'>
            Go to page 2
        </li>
    </ul>
</div>
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