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kokorohakai
kokorohakai

Reputation: 215

Ember-Router: dynamically create state from a recursive path

I need a way for ember router to route to a recursive path. 

For Example:
/:module
/:module/:submodule
/:module/:submodule/:submodule
/:module/:submodule/:submodule/...

Can this be done with Embers router, and if so, how?

I've been looking for examples, tearing apart the source, and I've pretty much come to the conclusion, it's not possible.

In a previous question, someone had pointed me to a way to get the url manually and split it, but I'm stuck at creating the state for the router to resolve to.

As of now, in my project, I currently just use the Ember.HashLocation to setup my own state manager.

The reason for the need of this, is because the module definitions are stored in a database, and at any given point a submodule of a submodule, recursively, could be added. So I'm trying to make the Application Engine handle the change.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 290

Answers (2)

S'pht'Kr
S'pht'Kr

Reputation: 2839

Do your submodules in the database not have unique IDs? It seems to me that rather than representing your hierarchy in the path, you should just go straight to the appropriate module or submodule. Of course the hierarchy is still in your data model, but it shouldn't have to be represented in your routing scheme. Just use:

/module/:moduleId
/submodule/:submoduleId

And don't encode the hierarchy in the routes. I understand it might be natural to do so, but there's probably not a technical reason to.

If your submodules don't have unique ids, it's maybe a little tougher...you could build a unique ID by concatenating the ancestor ids together (say, with underscores), which is similar to splitting the URL, but a little cleaner probably. I will say that Ember/Ember Data doesn't seem to be too easy to use with entities with composite keys--if everything has a simple numeric key everything becomes easier (anyone want to argue with me on this, please explain to me how!).

Upvotes: 1

Shane Davis
Shane Davis

Reputation: 952

DO you mean like this:

App.Router.map(function(match) {
  match('/posts').to('blogPosts');
  match('/posts/:blog_post_id').to('showBlogPost');
});

Upvotes: 0

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