Hi you all,
I have a REST app where I want to consult a resource by all its different attributes. So I may have the following URLs: - List of bugs: /bugs - The bug with id 1, and so on: /bugs/1 - List of values of "whatever", where "whatever" can be any of the bug attributes, such as "state": /bugs/by_whatever - List of bugs whose attribute "whatever" has the value "value": /bugs/by_whatever/value
I have the first two ones urls working (easy). What about the others? I dunno how to rearrange my routes.rb and what to do with my BugsController.
- I cannot use nesting resources (nested should have the id of a bug, like /bugs/{id}/). - I've started adding a new method called "by_state" in my BugsController, being "state" one of the bug attributes, but an error appears when accessing url /bugs/by_state: "Couldn't find Bug with ID=by_state". Obvious. - Perhaps a new controller could do the trick. Something like BugsByController,which would create the /bugs_by/{whatever} URL. But again, I dunno what to do with the {value} part. - To solve this I can do one controller for each attribute BugsByStateController, BugsBy…, but this sounds horrible. - What about collections? I can have map.resources :bugs, :collection => { :by_state=> :get, by_dir=> :get, by_etc... } Getting URLs such as /bugs/by_state, /bugs/by_dir, etc… But again, what happens with the "value" part?
Thank you all.
