How to prevent creation of new instance of controller on $location hash search param change.

Question

How to prevent creation of new instance of controller on $location hash search param change.

I have many filters on my page. I am using $location.search to save search parameters in hash. But angular is creating new controller instance on every search param change which I want to prevent.

I don't want to create new instance of controller on each $location.search() call.

javascript
hash
angularjs

Answer 1

When creating the route definition set reloadOnSearch to false

angular.module('ngView', ['$routeProvider', function(routeProvider) {
  routeProvider.when('/my-path', {
    templateUrl: 'my-template.html',
    controller: 'MyController',
    reloadOnSearch : false
  });

}]);