How to extract query parameters with ui-router for AngularJS?

Question

How do I extract query parameters using ui-router for AngularJS?

In AngularJS' own $location service I did:

($location.search()).uid

to extract the parameter uid from a URL. What is the corresponding code for ui-router?

Answer 1

Unless you're binding to the query parameters (see the documentation), you don't access them directly through $state or $stateParams. Use the $location service.

EDIT: Per the docs, if you want to capture query parameters in $stateParams, you can append a ? to your url, and name each query parameter, separated by &, i.e. url: "/foo?bar&baz".