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Shi Wei
Shi Wei

Reputation: 272

ExpressJS, how to route to my function

I am new to expressJS, nodeJS and hope some kind souls would enlighten me on routing.

I have this line in app.js

var core = require('./routes/core/'),
app.get ('/core/:base/:methodfunc', core);

The end result I would like to achieve is when i pass in /core/testmethod/test from the URL, I am able to access test function in testmethod file

The routing :base param is to route to testmethod.js and :methodfunc method is the exported function in testmethod

This is my main code in /core index.js

module.exports = function(req, res) {
    var base = req.params.base;
    var methodfunc = req.params.methodfunc;
    var basePage = require('./' + base);

    if (basePage) {
        if (methodfunc) {
            basePage.methodfunc(req, res); //there is something very wrong here
        } else {
            fail();
        }
    } else {
        fail();
    }

    function fail() {
        res.send(404);
    }
}

testmethod.js function

exports.test = function(req, res) {
    res.json({
        name: 'hello there'
    });
};

THANKS!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (1)

PeterVC
PeterVC

Reputation: 4604

Looks like you want to call the function by name so it would be:

basePage[methodfunc](req, res);

Upvotes: 1

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