thorn
Recently, when reading Phoenix routing guide I stumbled upon description of resources:
scope "/", HelloPhoenix do
pipe_through :browser
resources "/users", UserController
end
And having Rails background I thought that it would be nice to get the framework guess the controller name based on path.
resources "/users"
Then I added matching function to deps/phoenix/lib/phoenix/router.ex
defmacro resources(path) do
controller_name = path # "/users"
|> String.replace_prefix("/", "") # "users"
|> String.split("_") # ["users"]
|> Enum.map(fn(el) -> String.capitalize(el) end) # ["Users"]
|> Enum.join() # "Users"
# create a fiction result of quote function
controller = {:__aliases__, [], [String.to_atom(controller_name <> "Controller")]}
add_resources path, controller, [], do: nil
end
After phoenix recompilation with mix deps.compile phoenix new router function magically started to work.
# web/router.ex
scope "/", HelloPhoenix do
pipe_through :browser # Use the default browser stack
resources "/users"
end
scope "/admin", HelloPhoenix.Admin, as: :admin do
pipe_through :browser
resources "/users"
end
$mix phoenix.routes
users_path GET /users HelloPhoenix.UsersController :index
users_path GET /users/:id/edit HelloPhoenix.UsersController :edit
users_path GET /users/new HelloPhoenix.UsersController :new
users_path GET /users/:id HelloPhoenix.UsersController :show
users_path POST /users HelloPhoenix.UsersController :create
users_path PATCH /users/:id HelloPhoenix.UsersController :update
PUT /users/:id HelloPhoenix.UsersController :update
users_path DELETE /users/:id HelloPhoenix.UsersController :delete
admin_users_path GET /admin/users HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :index
admin_users_path GET /admin/users/:id/edit HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :edit
admin_users_path GET /admin/users/new HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :new
admin_users_path GET /admin/users/:id HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :show
admin_users_path POST /admin/users HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :create
admin_users_path PATCH /admin/users/:id HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :update
PUT /admin/users/:id HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :update
admin_users_path DELETE /admin/users/:id HelloPhoenix.Admin.UsersController :delete
So the question is about ugly transformation that tries to mimic #constantize method in Rails. Is there a better way to guess the constant based on the given string?
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christopheradams
The
Phoenix.Namingmodule has something like this.Or take a look at
Macro.camelize/1if you can guarantee your routes can be cleanly turned into module names.christopheradams
In addition, if you really want this feature (to each his own), you don’t have to edit your Phoenix dep to get it.
As long as you’re willing to come up with a new name and not use
resources, you can create your own macro in your router that takes a path and translates it intoresources "/users", UsersController.Something like:
Then in your router you call it with: