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Help defining URL Rest structure for nested element

Hello everyone I’m creating an example phoenix app just for learning. My example app is a real estate web portal, so I’m gonna publish places (houses, apartments, etc). I have defined the following entities
Place (house, apartment) 1 → n rooms

So there is a 1 to n relationship between house and rooms and is a composition (so the rooms doesn´t exist if the house doesn’t exist).

My question is, Should be the url structure like following

/houses/house_id/rooms/room_id

If so assuming I have created both entities and liveviews

mix phx.gen.live Places House houses address:string rooms:integer image_path:string
mix phx.gen.live Places Room rooms name:string image:string

and for the last one I created a migration to improve the relationship between houses and rooms

...
    create table(:rooms) do
      add :name, :string
      add :image, :binary
      add :house_id, references(:houses, on_delete: :nothing)

      timestamps(type: :utc_datetime)
    end

    create index(:rooms, [:house_id])
  end

Are the following router.ex configuration OK? fulfilled the right URL structure ?

#Houses
live "/houses", HouseLive.Index, :index
live "/houses/new", HouseLive.Index, :new
live "/houses/:id/edit", HouseLive.Index, :edit
live "/houses/:id", HouseLive.Show, :show
live "/houses/:id/show/edit", HouseLive.Show, :edit
#Rooms
live "/houses/:house_id/rooms", RoomLive.Index, :index
live "/houses/:house_id/rooms/new", RoomLive.Index, :new
live "/houses/:house_id/rooms/:id/edit", RoomLive.Index, :edit
live "/houses/:house_id/rooms/:id", RoomLive.Show, :show
live "/houses/:house_id/rooms/:id/show/edit", RoomLive.Show, :edit

Any suggestion or comment will be welcome I just keep learning and following in love with the language and the framework. Thanks in advance

First Post!

sodapopcan

sodapopcan

This is really a matter of taste though there are at least a couple of things to consider.

If you have breadcrumbs, then having houses/:house_id/rooms/:room_id can certainly be useful. I personally really dislike this structure though. First, if the room were to change to a new house, its URL changes, and second, if I happen to know the id of a room and want to just type the URL in my address bar, I now need to go find its house id as well. Both problems could be solve by having rooms/:id redirect to houses/:house_id/rooms/:room_id, though that’s a little heavy-handed if you don’t strictly need it. And of course if you have a lot of routes where having them both at the top level becomes unmanageable, that’s a different story as well.

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