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Robin
Robin

Reputation: 132

Remove unnecessary parameter from nested resource controller in Laravel 4.x

I am developing an API through Laravel using Resource Controllers which are linked through the routes.php file. See the example below:

// API routes
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'v1'), function() {

    Route::resource('users', 'UserController');
    Route::resource('users.profile', 'UserProfileController');
    Route::resource('users.tasks', 'UserTaskController');

});

Generally, Laravel does a good job at handling these routes. But there is one exception that I have where I struggle with. My database model is designed to have a one-to-one relationship between the users table and the user_profiles table by looking at the foreign key user_id in the user_profiles table. This means that it is acting on a identifying relationship, so it doesn't have an own primary key, it actually borrows the key of the users table.

Now, I want to update the UserProfile model through the UserProfileController that gets called when the following (example) URL is entered: http://api.projectX.dev:8000/v1/users/{id of the user}/profile. But Laravel forces me to have a URL like this: http://api.projectX.dev:8000/v1/users/{id of the user}/profile/{some other useless ID}.

Is there any way to magically remove that last ID from the resources route and just take advantage of the first ID?

I hope that somebody can help me with this, because finding the answer to this question is actually pretty hard to find right now.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2096

Answers (1)

Aken Roberts
Aken Roberts

Reputation: 13467

You're creating a nested resource controller (scroll down a bit). Essentially saying that one resource controller belongs under another resource controller. You can use php artisan routes to see exactly what routes are being generated.

Sounds like you'll need to use a combination of resource controllers and explicitly defined routes to get the exact setup you're after. I don't know enough about how you want to control updating/deleting profiles, or I'd offer something more substantial than that.

Upvotes: 1

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