Access router from Angular Dart controller - dart

Question

I have a basic Angular Dart program which currently allows logging in and shows a basic dashboard when logged in. What I would like to do is redirect to the dashboard route after a successful login. I do not know how to access the router object from within the login controller, attempts to use DI to load in Router to the controller work but give me a fresh Router object instead of the previously initialised one (as expected).
main.dart
import 'package:angular/angular.dart';
import 'dart:convert' show JSON;
import 'dart:html';
class TTRouter implements RouteInitializer {
Cookies _cookies;
TTRouter(this._cookies);
init(Router router, ViewFactory view) {
router.root
..addRoute(
name: 'login',
path: '/login',
enter: view('login.partial.html'))
..addRoute(
name: 'home',
path: '/dashboard',
enter: view('dashboard.partial.html'));
}
}
#NgController(
selector: '[login-controller]',
publishAs: 'ctrl')
class LoginController {
Http _http;
Scope _scope;
LoginController(this._scope, this._http);
login() {
// Login API request ommitted
// TODO: insert redirect to 'home' route here
}
}
class TTModule extends Module {
TTModule() {
type(RouteInitializer, implementedBy: TTRouter);
type(LoginController);
factory(NgRoutingUsePushState,
(_) => new NgRoutingUsePushState.value(false));
}
}
main() => ngBootstrap(module: new TTModule());
login() is called using ng-submit="ctrl.login() from the login partial view.
I would be grateful for any comments on the structure of the code as well if I'm approaching this the wrong way. I am new to both Dart and Angular (read/watched tutorials but this is the first app I am building on my own).

Answer 1

If you add the router as value to the module instead of type you get the same instance every time.
TTModule() {
value(RouteInitializer, new TTRouter());
}

Answer 2

try with NgRoutingHelper.
class LoginController {
Http _http;
Scope _scope;
NgRoutingHelper locationService;
LoginController(this._scope, this._http, NgRoutingHelper this.locationService );
login() {
// Login API request ommitted
// TODO: insert redirect to 'home' route here
locationService.router.go('home', {} );
}
}
don't forget to add the service in your module
type(NgRoutingHelper );

Answer 3

You should be always getting the same instance of the Router -- there can only be one, otherwise unpredictable things will start happening.
class LoginController {
Http _http;
Scope _scope;
Router _router;
LoginController(this._scope, this._http, this._router);
login() {
_router.go('home', {} );
}
}