Nav.getActive() returns null if an overlay is shown

Short description of the problem:

When I present an overlay (alert, popover etc.), the app’s NavController method getActive returns null.

What behavior are you expecting?

I don’t know whether it should return the underlying page or the active overlay, but returning null seems like a bug to me, especially when it returns the active page before the overlay is shown. It seems to me that it should return the active overlay, becuse nav.isActive(overlay) returns true.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Present an overlay and wait for it’s promise
2. Check the return result of app.getActiveNav().getActive()

app.getActiveNav().getActive(); // returns ViewController with the current page
alert.present().then(() => {
   app.getActiveNav().getActive(); // returns null
   app.getAciveNav().isActive(alert); // returns true
});

Which Ionic Version? 1.x or 2.x 2.0.0-beta.11

Run ionic info from terminal/cmd prompt: (paste output below) Cordova CLI: 6.1.1 Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.1 Gulp local: Local version 3.9.1 Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-beta.11 Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.36 Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.19 OS: Node Version: v6.2.0

[TomasKatz]

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On Aug 13, 2016 7:25 PM, “Jakub Beránek” [e-mail] wrote:

I’m on vacation and won’t be able to test it until next week, sorry x)

However I would like to get the active view from a singleton service that manages the overlays and UI, so using an injected NavController directly isn’t an option there. Is it possible to get the active view from the root/active nav? It seems that it should be working, it returns the page correctly, however after an overlay is shown, it suddenly returns null.

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[adubovsky]

Actually this is a problem and should be fixed in my opinion.

Example/usecase: our app is checking for some settings/whatever in the background (using setInterval). And when this check returns TRUE we want to show modal with some info. So the problem is app will be broken in case of another overlay is active at the moment. What can we do in such cases? I thought about using getActive().isOverlay flag, but it doesn’t work 😕