ColdBox Modules and routing
Andrew Scott
I am looking at doing something that I am not sure is possible with the new modules, so if anyone has some experience or even some ideas then I would like to discuss this further.
The problem I am having is trying to get my head around calling the module, but from a defined route to begin with.
So if I develop say a community type site and it has a url like
www.domainname.com/somedefinedvar/name/admin
Now Admin is the module in question, and the name could be something like Andrew-scott or maybe andyscott or even andy-scott.
Would the module still be able to be setup in this manner?
Regards,
Andrew Scott
Brett
your module in the host application.
addModuleRoutes(pattern="/somedefinedvar/:name/admin",module="admin");
if somedefinedvar is configurable, you could tie this to a setting and
make your module routes dynamic:
addModuleRoutes(pattern="/" & getSetting("settings")["someDefinedVar"]
& "/:name/admin",module="admin");
hth,
.brett
Andrew Scott
is not available in the module.
Regards,
Andrew Scott
http://www.andyscott.id.au/
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Andrew Scott
If in my handler I do this.
var rc = event.getCollection();
writweDump(rc); abort;
There is nothing from the original route anywhere to be seen.
Regards,
Andrew Scott
http://www.andyscott.id.au/
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Luis Majano
1. Create an entry point to your module in the parent app. Maye like
AddModuleRoute("/mymod","modulename")
This just maps a piece of the URL to your module. Then in your actual module config create the dynamic ses route that you would like to look for.
Have you tried this?
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Andrew Scott
run, if I do this in ColdBox.cfc
The handlers will run, but the information before it is not passed over.
addModuleRoutes(pattern="/community/:name/forgebox",module="forgebox");
addRoute(pattern=":handler/:action?");
As I said if I do as you suggest the handlers are not run at all, I spent
some time going through the code line by line with the debugger. The regex
is created for the addModuleRoute, but when it comes to calling the handler
the rc is not passed over.
I'll continue to do more testing, but I can tell you know if I don't add
what I have above the handler for the Module is never executed.
Andrew Scott
Here is what I want to do
www.domainname.com/community/andyscott/module/2010/09/01
If I try this in Routes.cfc
addModuleRoute('pattern='/module', module='module);
and moduleConfig.cfc
routes = [
{pattern="/community/:name/module",
handler="manager",action="index"},
{pattern="/community/:name/module
/:year-numeric?/:month-numeric?/:day?/:blogTitle?",
handler="manager",action="dspPosts"}
];
I get community.index is not a registered event.
However if I do
addModuleRoute('pattern='/community/:name /module', module='module);
routes = [
{pattern="/ ", handler="manager",action="index"},
{pattern="/:year-numeric?/:month-numeric?/:day?/:blogTitle?",
handler="manager",action="dspPosts"}
];
Both handlers can be called fine, the only problem is that the pattern for
:name is NEVER passed over to the modules.
This is a show stopper for me now.
Curt Gratz
You are correct, the :name var is never passed in(although the docs
never say it will be) and something I'm sure we will look into(would be
a nice behavior), but it certainly doesn't have to be a show stopper.
It's not so difficult to grab that variable out of the URL yourself as
you know the pattern and place it in the request collection.
Curt Gratz
Computer Know How
Luis Majano
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Luis Majano
There is a misconception. first, the addModuleRoute in the parent creates an entry point int the URL
www.domainname.com/community/andyscott/module/2010/09/01
What is the entry point here?
I would suspect: community?
Anyways, here is the current implementation. I create the addModuleRoute(pattern="/community",module="MyModule")
Once the /community is detected in the URL, the REMAINING part of the URL is SENT to the module for routing and tries to match those.
So /andyscott/module/2010/09/01 is sent to the route for matching, as the first part "/community" has already matched and removed from the evaluation string.
This should clear up what you need. You need a prefix in the URL for a module entry point, the rest is parsable. I find it weird that you would have the module name in the middle or end of a route.
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Andrew Scott
How is it weird?
If you are expecting the :name as I am doing to be community based, how would you then apply your module across many users?
The problem I have with your solution, is will this work across multiple modules?
Andrew Scott
Regards,
Andrew Scott
http://www.andyscott.id.au/
Andrew Scott
The problem with this approach is that the normal handlers will not run, I made this very clear earlier that this was the problem.
And it will not do this for multiple modules either, which is a pain in the butt here. Here is a snapshot of what I am trying to achieve with the modules, as this is already working without them.
The site is a comunnity based site, in which the following urls will give the site details
www.domainname.com or www.domainname.com/community
From there a person can signup and create a page on this site, which then becomes
www.domainname.com/community/andyscott/
From here I can then add pages to their community space, and in this example it could be say a blog for instance
www.domainname.com/community/andyscott/blog
All the suggestions that have been put forward, then break the first 2 URL calls and will also stop any other modules from being placed onto the users space. Now I know that I can switch this to the following URL, but this is not the requirements of this site and is not acceptable.
www.domainname.com/blog/andyscott
So I hope this clears the problem up some more, and I have tried moving things around to get multiple modules working with the system handlers and nothing will work. My initial way of doing it sort of works, but it falls over because the routes that are defined are not persisted across to the module. Once that is solved then I will be back up and running again converting my core code into modules and system.
Andrew Scott
Luis, if you are interested I now have this working.
In the SES Interceptor I had to remove these lines in the findRoutes
if( NOT structIsEmpty(params) ){
return params;
}
I am not sure this is the ultimate solution, and with removing the line from the ModuleConfig
{pattern="/", handler="manager", action="index"},
It all seems to work a treat now, so at this stage I do not see any implications this will cause down the track.
From: Andrew Scott [mailto:and...@andyscott.id.au]
Sent: Saturday, 4 September 2010 8:33 AM
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Andrew Scott
Actually it does the line in the module like this
{pattern="/:year-numeric?/:month-numeric?/:day?/:Title?", handler="manager", action="displayInfo"}
Will put the following into the request collection.
_INVALID_VARIABLE_NAME_POS_1_ 09
I can live with this, but it’s something to be aware of.