Name

Forward::Guides::Routes::NestedResources - Routes for Nested Resources for Plack web framework developers (Perl)

Description

Forward::Routes supports nested resource routing. Take a look at Forward::Guides::Routes::Resources for more in depth documentation on resource routing.

# Routes root object
$r = Forward::Routes->new;

# Create a nested resource
$ads = $r->add_resources('magazines')->add_resources('ads');

# IN ADDITION TO ! to the magazine resource routes, the following routes
# are generated:

HTTP     Path                                 Controller Action        Route name
request                                       parameter  parameter
method          

GET      magazines/:magazine_id/ads/new        Ads       create_form   magazines_ads_create_form
GET      magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id        Ads       show          magazines_ads_show
GET      magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id/edit   Ads       update_form   magazines_ads_update_form
GET      magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id/delete Ads       delete_form   magazines_ads_delete_form
GET      magazines/:magazine_id/ads            Ads       index         magazines_ads_index
POST     magazines/:magazine_id/ads            Ads       create        magazines_ads_create
PUT      magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id        Ads       update        magazines_ads_update
DELETE   magazines/:magazine_id/ads/:id        Ads       delete        magazines_ads_delete

The placeholder name for the parent resource id is singularized. That way, it can easily be used to search the "ads" database table with "id" and "magazine_id" columns (typical column naming in case of has_many relationships).

# resource (plural):      magazines
# placeholder (singular): :magazine_id

The singularize method is very basic, but it can be overwritten:

$routes = Forward::Routes->new;

# pass a code ref via singularize method
$routes->singularize( sub {
    require Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number;
    return &Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number::to_S($value);
});