Location

Location is a service that applications can use to interact with a browser's URL. Depending on which LocationStrategy is used, Location will either persist to the URL's path or the URL's hash segment.

Note: it's better to use Router#navigate service to trigger route changes. Use Location only if you need to interact with or create normalized URLs outside of routing.

Location is responsible for normalizing the URL against the application's base href. A normalized URL is absolute from the URL host, includes the application's base href, and has no trailing slash: - /my/app/user/123 is normalized - my/app/user/123 is not normalized - /my/app/user/123/ is not normalized

Example

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
import {Location} from 'angular2/platform/common';
import {
  ROUTER_DIRECTIVES,
  ROUTER_PROVIDERS,
  RouteConfig
} from 'angular2/router';
 
@Component({directives: [ROUTER_DIRECTIVES]})
@RouteConfig([
 {...},
])
class AppCmp {
  constructor(location: Location) {
    location.go('/foo');
  }
}
 
bootstrap(AppCmp, [ROUTER_PROVIDERS]);