Navigate to the current route and "reset" the controllers

[gatonimo]

Controllers are disposed properly when you navigate to another page. But when you navigate to the current page, seems it doesn't dispose the controller and create a new one.

In GetX this was working when you went to the same page by using the Get.offAll method.

Is there any way to achieve this? I tried deleting and creating the controller manually before navigating to the screen, but for some reason it keeps the previous controller variables in the state and the controller methods such as onInit are not being triggered.

Tried navigating with goNamed replaceNamed and pushReplacementNamed, but the result is the same.

As a workaround, if I navigate to a different page add delay with await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 1)), and then navigate again to the current page, it works as expected. But this is not a good solution.

Another workaround would be creating a "reset" method and set all variables to the initial values, then call the "init" and "ready" methods manually. But I would like to avoid this if possible.

Thanks.

[gatonimo]

So for now I am using this as a workaround:

Create a "resetController" function inside your controller that sets all variables to their default values and calls initialization functions(the same you are doing inside onInit, onReady, etc.).

Then in your redirect method do this

@override
  Redirect? redirect() {
    return (context, state) {
      if(Get.isRegistered<YourController>()) {
        WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
          Get.find<YourController>().resetController(); // redirect workaround
        });
      }
      return null;
    };
  }
}

[BenjaminMahmic]

@gatonimo Thanks for the report! 🙏 Could you share a concrete use case from your app where you navigate to the same route and expect the controller to reset? That would help me better understand and decide if this should be handled by the package or is app-specific.

[gatonimo]

@BenjaminMahmic For example, when you have a navigation bar that allows you going to the home screen, but you are already in there, it should load all over again. I guess it is app-specific.

[BenjaminMahmic]

App-specific issue.