[Seaside] [Seaside REST] handling subpaths

[Sebastian Sastre]

sounds good.

I 'll try.

I don't see a metacello configuration... 

how do I load Seaside 3.1?



On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:

> 2012/3/10 Sebastian Sastre <sebastian at flowingconcept.com>:
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> if you have this:
>> 
>> RestfulHandler
>> |-UserHandler
>> |-PersonHandler
>> |-CompanyHandler
>> |-AlbumHandler
>> L_RecordHandler
>> 
>> and you want to access this:
>> 
>> api/
>> api/User
>> api/Person
>> apiCompany
>> api/Album
>> api/Record
>> 
>> how do you do that?
>> 
>> sebastian
>> 
>> o/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> PS: What I've tried so far is to set a class-side #initialize on all of them
>> to register an handler at everyone of those paths.
>> 
>> Example:
>> 
>> UserHandler class>>initialize
>> 
>> WAAdmin register: self at: self basePath,'/User'
>> 
>> #basePath returns 'api'.
>> 
>> The problem is that RestfulHandler also registers because there are some
>> actions to be done in the path api/{action} and it causes some trouble.
>> Registering this guy adds the handler at the root path and it seems that, in
>> order to be able to register/handle the subpaths, seaside needs in the root
>> path a dispatcher instead, so..?
>> 
>> PSS: It would be wonderful to just register 'api' and let the handler take
>> care of every action with every pragma, the problem for that is that it
>> won't scale well in complexity. The solution to that is to subclass that
>> handler root class and perform the actions where matters, but I didn't
>> figured out how that can be done in Seaside REST or if it's possible (if you
>> have ideas on improving this I'd like to hear).
> 
> A solution would be to turn UserHandler and friends into filters. Then
> you can add them to an API handler that just returns 404.
> 
> You need the latest 3.1 code for this to work.
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
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