Deeplink

Deeplink is a small utility for working with deeplinks. The current version is 0.1.25. Documentation is available here.

Implementation

<script src="js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/deeplink-0.1.25-min.js"></script>

Usage

Each new Deeplink instance is a new object monitoring the window.onhashchange event (or a custom monitoring function for older browsers). This is the simplest way to call the constructor:

var d = new Deeplink();

You may also specify strings for the hash equality and separator values:

var d = new Deeplink(":", ",");

.hashchange

Every "hashchange" event triggers a "deeplink" event on the Deeplink instance. Any functions that need information from this event should be bound to the instance. These functions receive two arguments: a jQuery Event, and a data object with the data.hash string and a data.map key-value object:

var d = new Deeplink();

var goto = function (e, data) {
    var hash = data.hash;
    var map = data.map;
};

$(d).bind("deeplink", goto);

.hashupdate

One other method to note is "hashupdate". If your code updates the state of the page in a way that needs to be referenced by a deeplink, you may pass a key-value object into this method to update the page URL. This method has three parameters:

• map: The key-value object that updates the hash parameters
• replace: A boolean that specifies whether the entire hash should be replaced
• fire: A boolean that specifies whether this update should trigger a deeplink event on this instance

Sample usage:

var d = new Deeplink();

var changePanel = function (id) {

    // do stuff to change the panel

    d.hashupdate({"panel", id});
};

changePanel(4);

Deeplink.setDelay

A final method to review is Deeplink.setDelay, which allows you to modify the timeout length between hash checks in browsers that don't support the window.onhashchange event:

Deeplink.setDelay(500); // in milliseconds

Dependencies

jQuery 1.7+

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013, <Matthew Cobbs>

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