I've got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests. Currently I'm using simple resource routing:
map.resources :nodes
Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via:
/nodes/id
I'd prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace:
/nodes/id /nodes/id/child /nodes/id/child/grandchild
Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make context-specific searching easier.
Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem?
- donald
Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) wrote:
I've got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests. Currently I'm using simple resource routing:
map.resources :nodes
Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via:
/nodes/id
I'd prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace:
/nodes/id /nodes/id/child /nodes/id/child/grandchild
Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make context-specific searching easier.
Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem?
- donald
Use * and write your own routing method? E.g.:
map.connect 'nodes/*rparams', :controller => "nodes", :action => "router"
and rparams will be passed into router as an array of values.
> I've got a tree of nodes to which I want to route requests. Currently > I'm using simple resource routing: > > map.resources :nodes > > Rather than a flat URLspace where all nodes are access via: > > /nodes/id > > I'd prefer an arbitrary deeply nested URLspace: > > /nodes/id > /nodes/id/child > /nodes/id/child/grandchild > > Both to make inserting new nodes simpler, and to make context-specific > searching easier. > > Can anyone suggest how I might approach this problem? > > - donald
Use * and write your own routing method? E.g.:
map.connect 'nodes/*rparams', :controller => "nodes", :action => "router"
and rparams will be passed into router as an array of values.
That's a thought, thanks for the suggestion. Sadly, it means I can't use any of the nice url generator methods provided by rails routing, but it'd work. I'll give it a whirl.
- donald