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% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/bookmark-state.R
\name{updateQueryString}
\alias{updateQueryString}
\title{Update URL in browser's location bar}
\usage{
updateQueryString(queryString, mode = c("replace", "push"),
session = getDefaultReactiveDomain())
}
\arguments{
\item{queryString}{The new query string to show in the location bar.}
\item{mode}{When the query string is updated, should the the current history
entry be replaced (default), or should a new history entry be pushed onto
the history stack? The former should only be used in a live bookmarking
context. The latter is useful if you want to navigate between states using
the browser's back and forward buttons. See Examples.}
\item{session}{A Shiny session object.}
}
\description{
This function updates the client browser's query string in the location bar.
It typically is called from an observer. Note that this will not work in
Internet Explorer 9 and below.
}
\details{
For \code{mode = "push"}, only three updates are currently allowed:
\enumerate{
\item the query string (format: \code{?param1=val1&param2=val2})
\item the hash (format: \code{#hash})
\item both the query string and the hash
(format: \code{?param1=val1&param2=val2#hash})
}
In other words, if \code{mode = "push"}, the \code{queryString} must start
with either \code{?} or with \code{#}.
A technical curiosity: under the hood, this function is calling the HTML5
history API (which is where the names for the \code{mode} argument come from).
When \code{mode = "replace"}, the function called is
\code{window.history.replaceState(null, null, queryString)}.
When \code{mode = "push"}, the function called is
\code{window.history.pushState(null, null, queryString)}.
}
\examples{
## Only run these examples in interactive sessions
if (interactive()) {
## App 1: Doing "live" bookmarking
## Update the browser's location bar every time an input changes.
## This should not be used with enableBookmarking("server"),
## because that would create a new saved state on disk every time
## the user changes an input.
enableBookmarking("url")
shinyApp(
ui = function(req) {
fluidPage(
textInput("txt", "Text"),
checkboxInput("chk", "Checkbox")
)
},
server = function(input, output, session) {
observe({
# Trigger this observer every time an input changes
reactiveValuesToList(input)
session$doBookmark()
})
onBookmarked(function(url) {
updateQueryString(url)
})
}
)
## App 2: Printing the value of the query string
## (Use the back and forward buttons to see how the browser
## keeps a record of each state)
shinyApp(
ui = fluidPage(
textInput("txt", "Enter new query string"),
helpText("Format: ?param1=val1&param2=val2"),
actionButton("go", "Update"),
hr(),
verbatimTextOutput("query")
),
server = function(input, output, session) {
observeEvent(input$go, {
updateQueryString(input$txt, mode = "push")
})
output$query <- renderText({
query <- getQueryString()
queryText <- paste(names(query), query,
sep = "=", collapse=", ")
paste("Your query string is:\\n", queryText)
})
}
)
}
}
\seealso{
\code{\link{enableBookmarking}}, \code{\link{getQueryString}}
}