p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../router'>angular2/router</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.37/modules/angular2/src/router/interfaces.ts#L7-L34">angular2/src/router/interfaces.ts (line 7)</a>

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  Defines route lifecycle method [onActivate], which is called by the router at the end of a
  successful route navigation.
  
  For a single component's navigation, only one of either [onActivate] or [onReuse] will be called,
  depending on the result of [canReuse].
  
  If `onActivate` returns a promise, the route change will wait until the promise settles to
  instantiate and activate child components.
  
  ## Example
  ```
  @Directive({
    selector: 'my-cmp'
  })
  class MyCmp implements OnActivate {
    onActivate(next, prev) {
      this.log = 'Finished navigating from ' + prev.urlPath + ' to ' + next.urlPath;
    }
  }
   ```
  
  
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        onActivate(nextInstruction: ComponentInstruction, prevInstruction: ComponentInstruction)
    
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