While working on navigation, I stumbled on this wa...

# ballast

[ubuntudroid]

While working on navigation, I stumbled on this way to completely clear out the navigation backstack via a router input:

RouterContract.Inputs.PopUntilAnnotation(inclusive = true, annotation = Tag(""))

Maybe this could be provided as a predefined Input? E.g. ClearBackstack or something similar.

[Casey Brooks]

Unlike the convention for most ballast VM Contracts, the RouterContract intentionally uses an abstract (not sealed) class to represent Inputs, so you can create your own and directly update the backstack however you need. Here’s an example from the BallastNavigationExt library showing how simple this is.

For this particular Input, though, I’m not quite sure I understand the user-case for completely clearing the backstack. I would expect that you should clear it only to the first entry, or else exit the application (which, maybe that’s what you’re trying to do with a ClearBackstack input?). I’m not opposed to adding new Routing Inputs if they’re generally-useful, so maybe you can help me understand more about this one. But it may also be better for you to just create your own Input types that better represent your application’s unique navigation logic

[ubuntudroid]

or else exit the application

That’s exactly my intention. Thanks for pointing out the library project, I’ll make sure to check it out. 🙏