derekkraan
[abandoned] Proposal for multiple "~p" sigils
I have been using a multi-endpoint setup in my app, just because I think it makes the most sense for a multi-subdomain app. This worked well enough with the old style of route helpers, since I could call them with their fully qualified module names.
Now with the introduction of ~p, things have become more complicated. The crux of the issue is: there can only be one ~p sigil defined per module. This means that it is not possible to use verified routes for multiple routers in the same template.
The result is that I have resorted to using just string literals in the places where cross-domain links are present.
My proposal is to make the sigil that is defined customizable, with a default to p when no other has been defined.
Usage would look something like this:
use Phoenix.VerifiedRoutes,
endpoint: MyApp.Endpoint,
router: MyApp.Router,
statics: MyApp.statics,
sigil: "MYAPP"
And then you would be able to use the sigil like this: ~MYAPP"/my_path".
This would make it possible for several sigils to be defined in a single module.
I’d be happy to provide a PR if there is agreement that this would be a good addition to Phoenix.
[edit: apparently path/3 and url/3 exist and I just didn’t know about them. In light of that it seems unlikely that this proposal will be accepted]
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LostKobrakai
You can use verified routers also with path(conn_or_socket_or_endpoint_or_uri, router, ~p"…").
derekkraan
still I am not a friend of that
Discussion on that change was pretty heated so I don’t think you’re the only one. Still, it’s there.
by convention
I think with new capabilities there will be new conventions.
Personally I’m very much in favour of the new sigil capabilities. There are a thousand new sigils that one could imagine, and the all upper caps means that you will readily be able to see where magic is happening.
christhekeele
As a thought experiment, an interesting alternative would be to provide the desired router as a suffix.
You could hack around how sigils allow lists of characters at the end, to support things like Regex modifier flags such as ~r/(^(?<line>.*?)$/m for multi-line regexes.
Sadly, ~p"my_path"MyApp.Router would not work because of how the . gets parsed; these modifiers only accept ASCII letters and digits. So we’re back to doing something like configuring an alias in your Router, but with even nastier metaprogramming to implement:
use Phoenix.VerifiedRoutes,
endpoint: MyApp.Endpoint,
router: MyApp.Router,
statics: MyApp.statics,
sigil_specifier: "myapprouter"
~p"/my_path"myapprouter
which is frankly worse.
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