Laravel Nova - Reload index view of a resource - laravel

I'm developing my first Nova field. It's an index field that contains a button which sends an Axios request, and when a response is being returned I need to reload the index view.
For now I got this:
this.$router.go(this.$router.currentRoute);
The problem is that it refreshes the entire page (a hard-refresh, like when you press Cmd+R). I just want to reload the current route (which is the index route of a resource).
I also tried this:
this.$router.push({
name: 'index',
params: {
resourceName: this.resourceName,
},
});
But since I pushed the same route, it does nothing.
Any ideas?
Thank's, Daniel.

You can try something like this
let currentFilters = _.cloneDeep(this.$store.state[`${this.resourceName}`]['filters']);
await this.$store.commit(`${this.resourceName}/storeFilters`, {});
await this.$store.commit(`${this.resourceName}/storeFilters`, currentFilters);
This code will reset currently applied filters to empty object and then requests old filters again which leads to resource index updating. But be careful - this method makes two requests to the server.
I'm facing the same issue now while trying to implement custom popup component - but that's all I could do with implemented in Nova vuex store.
Idea of implementation was taken from https://github.com/tanmuhittin/nova-reload-resources/blob/f27da9507a97696b7aca0e9bd7e5afd3001f0891/resources/js/components/Card.vue#L21

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It is not a redundancy problem, it's a logic problem. You should not pass ANY variable from blade to view in my opinion. You should do something like this:
Your controller (maybe from the index method) checks if the request wants a JSON response, if not returns the view, otherwise the collection as a JSON response (go on to understand why).
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As I wrote before, I would avoid as much as possible to pass properties from blade to vue, unless they're context variables like user preferences or system settings.
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In Sails.js, a route is set up against a controller method which can render a view. For the most part, this is straightforward, i.e. you could set up a GET /users route that points to UserController.find (which is usually set up automatically anyway).
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// api/controllers/IndexController.js
module.exports = {
home: function (req, res) {
// Retrieve all the information you need
// Take care about managing the asynchronous calls before rendering the view
return res.view('homepage');
}
};
Declare the route
// config/routes.js
module.exports.routes = {
'get /': 'IndexController.home'
}
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So normally with UI router you would define a route something like this:
$stateProvider.state('test', {
url: '/test?testQueryStringParam',
templateUrl: 'Test.html',
controller: 'TestController'
});
Then in my controller I can access the testQueryStringParam using $stateParams.
However, with UI router you can't access any query string parameters not specified in the route definition.
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Get the workaround of using $location to actually re-instantiate the controller.?
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$stateProvider.state('test', {
url: '/test?testQueryStringParam',
params: {
optParam: null,
},
templateUrl: 'Test.html',
controller: 'TestController'
});
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You can access this param in your controller using $stateParams
$stateParams.optParam
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Let me tel the scenario where I am stuck, I will try to explain simply rather than telling the actual.
1st : I am on page 1. Where few subjects are there with unique names.
2nd : I will click on one subject, which will call an struts2 action (lets call it ActionA)at back end with the unique subject name as a request parameter(Request type = GET).
3rd : Action A will only redirect to "Tutorial page".
4th : While loading it will make an AJAX call to another Struts2 action (lets call it ActionB), which will return JSON containing tutorials for that Subject.
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Note: I am using Struts2-JSON plugin thats why not need two actions, one for redirecting the page another for getting the JSON at page load.
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Here is the example for a shared Service: http://plnkr.co/edit/P2ItVj20RYCJVjdIaXfY
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Code from plunker
angular.module("app", [])
.controller("MainController", ['SharedService', function(SharedService) {
var vm = this;
//bind to service
vm.service = SharedService;
}]);
Service
angular.module("app")
.factory("SharedService", [function() {
var service = {
id: "test"
}
return service;
}]);

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routes.MapRouteLowercase("DefaultRoutes",
"{action}",
new { controller = "Home" },
new { action = new homeActionConstraint() });
It works fine. But how do I stop user from entering domain.com/home/actionName1 etc. and still reaching the action instead of 404 or something?
You need to remove the default {controller}/{action}/{id} route that matches that URL.
(or constrain it to not match)
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