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zedling
zedling

Reputation: 637

How to map shorthanded routes to the same controller in Slim 3

I am working on a REST API project using Slim 3, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to implement the following routing without creating separate routes for the shorthands.

The shorthand is ../me for ../users/{id} where the id is the current users ID. So far its easy, I just create the two routes, and map them to the same controller method; but there are many more endpoints which use the same logic for example: ../users/{id}/posts should use the same as ../me/posts, ../users/{id}/groups/{gid} should use the as ../me/groups/{gid}, etc.

I used the double dots to indicate that there are preceding URI parts (version, language etc.). I hope you get the idea now.

So my question is this: is there a way to reroute these kind of requests, or maybe is there a route pattern that would fit my needs and i missed it, maybe even I have to fiddle in a middleware to achieve this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 556

Answers (2)

Jiri
Jiri

Reputation: 435

There is a way to take advantage of Slim's FastRoute router. Put a regular expression into the variable part of your route and do the extra parsing inside the controller:

$app->get('/whatever/{id:users/\d+|me}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
    if (preg_match('%^users/(\d+)$%', $args['id'], $parsed)) {
        // This is /users/{id} route:
        $user = $parsed[1];
    } else {
        // This is /me route:
        $user = 'automagically recognized user';
    }
    return $response->withStatus(200)->write('Hello '.$user);
});

However I'd find that strange and would recommend mapping the same controller to two individual routes, as you do now. Two reasons come to my mind:

  • You can put the user ID lookup for 'me' route only into the one where it's needed (by having another controller adding this logic on top of the main one).
  • It's easier to comprehend for other developers on the team.

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 1

Gorio
Gorio

Reputation: 1646

Try it

$app->get('/users[/{id}/groups[/{msgid}]]', function ($request, $response, $args) {
}

and see the oficial documentation in http://www.slimframework.com/docs/objects/router.html

Upvotes: 0

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