How to change URL hash of WebView in Swift

Question

I did load a local single page webapp into a iOS UIWebView. The html file is loaded via

    let url = NSBundle.mainBundle().URLForResource("index", withExtension:"html", subdirectory: "html")
    let requestObj = NSURLRequest(URL: url!);

How can I set the url hash or search value to not load just

.../index.html

but for example:

.../index.html?flag=test#main

Once the html file is loaded, can I change the hash or search value somehow?

Answer 1

Hey i resolve my problem with this code:

On Swift (Native Code) i created the timer listen javascript variable change:

   override func viewDidLoad() {
         super.viewDidLoad()
         ...
         var timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(
                  0.4,
                  target: self,
                  selector: #selector(ViewController.update), //#call method
                  userInfo: nil,
                  repeats: true)

Use this method (#call method) to listen the javascript variable:

   var pathCurrent: String!;    
   func update() {

       let path: String! = webView.stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString("var path = public.path;  (function(_path){return _path;})(path)")

        if (path != pathCurrent)
        {
            //path changed
            print(path);

            pathCurrent = path;
        }

            print(path);
        }
    }

Note, this code, read the public variable -> var path = public.path;

Now, in Angular JS, you can change the public variable when route was changed:

$scope.$on("$routeChangeSuccess", function($currentRoute, $previousRoute) {
     public.path = $location.$$path;    
});

Or you can detect via JavaScript:

window.onhashchange = function() {  
    public.path = location.href.substr(path.indexOf("#/")+1);
}

now you know when angular path was changed in your native swift code :D