Pushstate in pjax only when redirecting - yii2

Question

In one of my pages I have a link that is handled by pjax. Basically the user clicks an item, this item becomes "checked" (and saved in the DB).
I have disabled pushState for these requests, because it makes no sense, user effectively stays in the same page, so it's counter-intuitive to change the url.
However, there is a case when this pjax request results in redirect to login page (when the user is not logged in). And this is when I really need pushState to work, and it doesn't because I disabled it in the first place.
Would it be possible to configure pjax in such a way that normal responses work without pushState, but redirect responses (done with X-Pjax-Url header) do perform pushState?

Answer 1

There's no way to do it using current functionality. I've added two more options to pjax and my PR has been accepted to yii2 branch of pjax. So, without further ado:
https://github.com/yiisoft/jquery-pjax
//pushRedirect - Whether to pushState the URL for redirects. Defaults to false.
//replaceRedirect - Whether to replaceState the URL for redirects. Defaults to true.
// ...
jQuery(document).pjax("#example_selector", {
"push": false,
"replace": false,
"pushRedirect": true,
"replaceRedirect": false
});

Answer 2

Use a linkSelector to specify which links trigger the pjax calls
<?php Pjax::begin([
'enablePushState' => false, // don't change the Browser URL
'linkSelector' => 'pjax-btn', // pjax links that
]); ?>
<?= GridView::widget([
//...
[ // no pjax, normal linl
'label' => 'link with state replace',
'format' => 'raw',
'value' => function ($model, $key, $index, $column) {
return Html::a($model->title, Url::to(['/controllet/action', 'id' => $model->id]));
}
],
[
'class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn',
//'class' => 'common\widgets\ActionColumn',
'template' => '{toggle} {view} {update} {delete}',
'buttons' => [
'toggle' => function ($url, $model, $key) {
$options = [
'title' => 'Privacy',
'aria-label' => 'Privacy',
'class' => 'pjax-btn', // no state replacement, load with pjax
];
$icon = Html::tag('span', '', ['class' => 'glyphicon glyphicon-check']);
return Html::a($icon, $url, $options);
},
]
]]) ?>
<?php Pjax::end(); ?>