Pushstate in pjax only when redirecting

In one of my pages I have a link that is handled by pjax. Basically the user clicks an item, this item becomes "checked" (and saved in the DB).

I have disabled pushState for these requests, because it makes no sense, user effectively stays in the same page, so it's counter-intuitive to change the url.

However, there is a case when this pjax request results in redirect to login page (when the user is not logged in). And this is when I really need pushState to work, and it doesn't because I disabled it in the first place.

Would it be possible to configure pjax in such a way that normal responses work without pushState, but redirect responses (done with X-Pjax-Url header) do perform pushState?

Solution

There's no way to do it using current functionality. I've added two more options to pjax and my PR has been accepted to yii2 branch of pjax. So, without further ado:

https://github.com/yiisoft/jquery-pjax

//pushRedirect - Whether to pushState the URL for redirects. Defaults to false.
//replaceRedirect - Whether to replaceState the URL for redirects. Defaults to true.

// ...

jQuery(document).pjax("#example_selector", {
  "push": false,
  "replace": false,
  "pushRedirect": true,
  "replaceRedirect": false
});