check if dialog is open using isOpen

there should be a function to check if particular dialog is open like isOpen using a dialog name or id specified while creating dialog

[dlwhiteman]

I was looking for the same thing, a way to find open dialogs so we don’t need to open another instance if one is already open. My use case is the UI is frequently pinging the REST API to see if it’s available. If there is a disconnection, an alert dialog is displayed saying the server is unavailable. We want it to keep pinging though, so the UI will wake back up when the server is back online. The problem I’m having is it’s creating an infinite number of dialogs with the same message, so I’d like to determine first whether there is already an open dialog. I would rather not have to hook in every time a user closes a dialog to find when I need to update some flag regarding whether the dialog is open.

[dougmoscrop]

You can still track all this in your own service; have your ‘offline’ or ‘connection problem’ code/error handler emit an event, and have another piece that listens to those events and raises the dialog. In that place it’s as simple as if () … with a local var.