$interval called twice on abstract state

ionic-v1
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I’ve searched this for awhile with no clear explanation why this occurs.

Using the standard ionic tabs project, on ‘AppCtrl’ which is attached to the ‘tabs.html’, when I establish an $interval function it’s triggered twice. I know some will say I’m not cancelling it, but I’m just starting the app up, this occurs when running ionic-serve also. Is there something about abstract states that triggers the $scope to trigger twice?

I’ve moved the same code out into a controller on a specific state, ‘tabs.chat’ and it works as expected.

2

maybe you are starting your interval on some state/view events?

if you listen to $ionic.viewEntered or $stateChangeSuccess --> those functions get called twice:

  1. for the abstract state itself
  2. for the visible child state
3

Yes it was on the .beforeEnter event of the controller. I’ve just moved it outside to a specific view’s controller using:

  if (!angular.isDefined(intervalVariable) { //DEFINE HERE };

and that works well, now the $http requests I want are just sending once, thanks for clarifying that about it being called twice.

So @bengtler are all functions/definitions called twice for the ionic.viewEvents() ? I am running several things at this point but that seems inefficient if it’s called twice. I guess I can check if it’s defined and skip it subsequently like I do for the $interval function. What are your thoughts?

4

they are triggered twice because of the abstract/parent state!

see:

  • your abstract state --> Listens to the ionicView events
    • child state 1 --> gets opened
    • child state 2

If you open a child state the parent states are loaded before so you get the event for the abstract state and then because of the child state.

5

Gotcha. Thanks @bengtler