transition.urlMethod as a proxy for browser pop state?
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I'm using the new Ember 3.7 routerService to build the browser's history in js-land for the purposes of showing nav back/forward buttons (think iOS app nav buttons).
One issue I'm facing is when to detect that a `routeDidChange` was the consequence of a browser back/forward event.
This can be known if I hook into the `window.onpopstate` event, but unfortunately, this fires after `routeDidChange`.
So, I've delved into the transition object in the hope of some clue as to whether a specific transition was browser initiated rather than a usual ember routing event.
It seems that `transition.urlMethod` may be this, from my limited testing it seems that `transition.urlMethod` will be `null` when a browser back/forward action triggered the transition and I can therefore use a null value as a indication that some kind of back/forward was used.
I've searched the codebase to see whether this is a safe assumption, but it seems that none of the comments specifically identify this.
So my question is... can I safely use `transition.urlMethod` to indicate in my code that a transition was not triggered by Ember and therefore is likely a browser-triggered back/forward transition?
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