10 $digest() iterations reached using $locationWatch

[fraywing]

Oh noes! Not this issue again!

I'm using the Zombie headless browser, Nodejs, Angular 1.2.0rc1 and i'm getting the same iteration loop error.

It seems as though this issue is related to #2815
as well as this thread:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/mRIo8LaTh4M

and the recent change for Boxee Box.

My thought is that there has to be some sort of universal fix instead of making exceptions for each instance where this comes up?

Anybody?

[fraywing]

Just to help anybody who has this issue out, I had to make a line addition to the Angular lib after line 11221 with:

headless = $window.navigator.appName == "Node.js jsDom" ? true : false,

and later on line 11253 made the change:

 history: !!($window.history && $window.history.pushState && !(android < 4) && !headless),

[petebacondarwin]

So the issue is that $location doesn't play well when the browser URL is changed by something outside of the control of Angular. For instance, the browser itself on Android or if you are using some 3rd party library such as jQuery.
I think the issue is explained well in this commit isabo@f44558b but I think that solution and the one here are too specific.

[fraywing]

I totally agree, I'm only attempting to help those that may be in specific situation, Using Nodejs with Zombie.

Its not a universal fix, and there has been a Boxee Box fix that is as specific as mine stated above, its was merged into the master branch of angular.

I disagree with that move as well, since as you stated, it needs to be a universal fix.

[xrg]

Please, can we reopen this issue to add more vintage Webkit browsers?

My konqueror 4.6.5 + webkit 1.0 (=533.3, productSub = 20030107) has the same issue.

[oilart]

Had the same issue when using browser.history API directly. In case you need to change the URL without using $location service etc. you can invoke $browser.url(newURL) first and then do the rest. This worked for me in Angular v1.2 rc3 :

$browser.url( state.url );
history.replaceState({}, state.title, state.url );

[tbosch]

Hi,
I just landed an fix for a similar issue in master: 3be00df

Could you check if this issue is still there?

[cortezcristian]

Angular you're not making my testing life easier :(. I'm using:

• AngularJS v1.3.0
• Node.JS v0.10.18
• Zombiejs ~2.0.8

If i do

$location.path('/crud/sample');// it fails

Error trace:

Error: [$rootScope:infdig] 10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!

https://docs.angularjs.org/error/$rootScope/infdig
Basically the ng-view starts repeating more than 10 times:

I'll end up doing somethig awful like:

document.location.href = '#/crud/sample'; //just to make my test pass

Any better idea?

[yanovich]

@cortezcristian
zombie behaves differently than FF 33 and Chrome 38. assaf/zombie@038b3c6 for more details.
EDIT: I mean it looks like a zombie, not an angular problem. And it's not solved. I've just pointed to the commit which introduces the present zombie behavior.

[petebacondarwin]

@cortezcristian - this is possibly related to #9635. Can you look at #9923 - to see if that fixes it?

[yanovich]

This should now be fixed by @assaf in assaf/zombie@d5f92bd

[wesleycho]

Sounds like this issue probably can be closed now.

[petebacondarwin]

Thanks