Package com.vaadin.flow.component.page

Class History

java.lang.Object

com.vaadin.flow.component.page.History

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class History
extends Object
implements Serializable

Represents window.history in the browser. See e.g. documentation on MDN for detailed information on how the API works in the browser.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Vaadin Ltd

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	History.HistoryStateChangeEvent	Event fired when the history state has changed.
static interface	History.HistoryStateChangeHandler	Handles location change events.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
History(UI ui)	Creates a history API endpoint for the given UI.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	back()	Navigates back.
void	forward()	Navigates forward.
History.HistoryStateChangeHandler	getHistoryStateChangeHandler()	Gets the handler that is notified history state has changed.
UI	getUI()	Gets the UI that this instance belongs to.
void	go(int steps)	Navigates a number of steps forward or backward in the history.
void	pushState(elemental.json.JsonValue state, Location location)	Invokes history.pushState in the browser with the given parameters.
void	pushState(elemental.json.JsonValue state, String location)	Invokes history.pushState in the browser with the given parameters.
void	replaceState(elemental.json.JsonValue state, Location location)	Invokes history.replaceState in the browser with the given parameters.
void	replaceState(elemental.json.JsonValue state, String location)	Invokes history.replaceState in the browser with the given parameters.
void	setHistoryStateChangeHandler(History.HistoryStateChangeHandler historyStateChangeHandler)	Sets a handler that will be notified when the history state has changed.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

History

public History(UI ui)

Creates a history API endpoint for the given UI.

Parameters:

ui - the ui, not null

Method Detail

getUI

public UI getUI()

Gets the UI that this instance belongs to.

Returns:

the ui, not null

pushState

public void pushState(elemental.json.JsonValue state,
                      String location)

Invokes history.pushState in the browser with the given parameters. This is a shorthand method for pushState(JsonValue, Location), creating Location from the string provided.

Parameters:

state - the JSON state to push to the history stack, or null to only change the location

location - the new location to set in the browser, or null to only change the JSON state

pushState

public void pushState(elemental.json.JsonValue state,
                      Location location)

Invokes history.pushState in the browser with the given parameters.

Parameters:

state - the JSON state to push to the history stack, or null to only change the location

location - the new location to set in the browser, or null to only change the JSON state

replaceState

public void replaceState(elemental.json.JsonValue state,
                         String location)

Invokes history.replaceState in the browser with the given parameters. This is a shorthand method for replaceState(JsonValue, Location), creating Location from the string provided.

Parameters:

state - the JSON state to push to the history stack, or null to only change the location

location - the new location to set in the browser, or null to only change the JSON state

replaceState

public void replaceState(elemental.json.JsonValue state,
                         Location location)

Invokes history.replaceState in the browser with the given parameters.

Parameters:

state - the JSON state to push to the history stack, or null to only change the location

location - the new location to set in the browser, or null to only change the JSON state

setHistoryStateChangeHandler

public void setHistoryStateChangeHandler(History.HistoryStateChangeHandler historyStateChangeHandler)

Sets a handler that will be notified when the history state has changed.

History state changes are triggered when a popstate event is fired in the browser or when the user has navigated using a router link. There can only be one handler at a time.

Parameters:

historyStateChangeHandler - the handler to set, or null to remove the current handler

See Also:

History.HistoryStateChangeEvent

getHistoryStateChangeHandler

public History.HistoryStateChangeHandler getHistoryStateChangeHandler()

Gets the handler that is notified history state has changed.

Returns:

the history state handler, or null if no handler is set

See Also:

History.HistoryStateChangeEvent

back

public void back()

Navigates back. This has the same effect as if the user would press the back button in the browser. This causes a History.HistoryStateChangeEvent to be fired asynchronously if the conditions described in the onpopstate documentation are met.

forward

public void forward()

Navigates forward. This has the same effect as if the user would press the forward button in the browser. This causes a History.HistoryStateChangeEvent to be fired asynchronously if the conditions described in the onpopstate documentation are met.

go

public void go(int steps)

Navigates a number of steps forward or backward in the history. This has the same effect as if the user would press the forward button in the browser. This causes a History.HistoryStateChangeEvent to be fired asynchronously if the conditions described in the onpopstate documentation are met.

Parameters:

steps - the number of steps to navigate, positive numbers navigate forward, negative numbers backward. 0 causes the current page to be reloaded