Confused with routes in Wheels 2.0 beta

[Seona Bellamy]

Hi folks,

I've been having a poke around with the 2.0 beta, since I have a personal project in mind that looked like a good test-bed for the new framework. Routes, however, are defeating me. I've read through all of the documentation and I thought I had my head around it, but it just won't play nicely.

I have the following login form on my homepage:

#startFormTag(route="login")#
    #textFieldTag(name="email", value=params.email, label="Email")#
    #passwordFieldTag(name="password", label="Password")#
    #submitTag(value="Login", class="btn btn-primary")#
#endFormTag()#

I have the following line in routes.cfm:

.get(name="login", to="sessions##create")

When I submit the login form, however, I get the following error:

Wheels.RouteNotFound

Could not find a route that matched this request.

Suggested action

Make sure there is a route configured in your config/routes.cfm file that matches the login request.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I did? Or am I missing something fundamental in my understanding of how the new routing system works? (I've been awake since 3am, so that's entirely possible...)

Cheers,

Seona Bellamy Web Developer m:0414 842 795 | e:seo...@gmail.com

[Per Djurner]

Replace .get with .post.

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[Seona Bellamy]

Oh, is this because it's handling a form submission?

Makes sense, but isn't something I'd figured out from the docs. (Which isn't to say it isn't in there somewhere - see earlier comment about having been awake for about 15 hours!)

Route works now. Happy days! Thanks. :D

Cheers,

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[Per Djurner]

Yes, that's why.

I'll add an issue on GitHub to improve the docs if needed.

Thanks :)

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[Seona Bellamy]

Looks like I'm not out of the woods yet.

I have a redirection in the Users controller - if the user is successfully logged in, redirect them to their profile page.

I'm using .resources("users") in my routes.cfm as recommended. I look in the "View Routes" link on the homepage and I see that it's created a bunch of different routes, most of which have the name "user". I'm assuming that this means that I can just pass "user" as the route and it will go to the appropriate controller/action based on what the URL pattern is. Is that correct?

Assuming that's correct, I have the redirection set up as:

redirectTo(route="user", key=1, message="Signed in successfully.", messageType="success");

I've hard-coded the key in for now just to remove one possible point of failure - I know that there is a record with an ID of 1 in the users table. Once I have it working that will be replaced by the logged-in user's ID.

Anyway, when I submit the login form it successfully logs in and then redirects to http://127.0.0.1:60000/users/1. This matches a pattern in the routes list that should use the "show" action. However I'm getting the following error:

Wheels.ViewNotFound

Could not find the view page for the 1 action in the Users controller.

Suggested action

Create a file named 1.cfm in the views/users directory (create the directory as well if it doesn't already exist).

Any idea what's gone wrong here? Why isn't it matching the pattern to the existing route?

Cheers,

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[Tom King]

You're right, that should match;

Just to check, a) you've reloaded the app since adding new routes, and b) there isn't a route above which might be taking precedence? i.e, wildcard()

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[Seona Bellamy]

Aha! Turns out it was the wildcard() placement. It was at the top of the mapper() block that was auto-generated, so I assumed that was where it was supposed to be. I've now moved it to the bottom and my route works as expected.

Yay for learning new things! Thank you. :D

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[Chris Peters]

You'll likely want to set up a singular resource called something like profile:

.resource("profile")

That tends to be a better match for entities that are tied to the user's session because it doesn't expose primary keys in the URL.

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[Seona Bellamy]

So would that require a separate "Profiles" controller?

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[Chris Peters]

Yes, it would. I typically find that to be a good course to take because you're loading the user based on a session ID rather than a parameter passed in the URL.

[Seona Bellamy]

Okay, definitely see the logic in that. And it turned out to be surprisingly easy to get working, too. Go Wheels! :D

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

Cheers,

Seona Bellamy Web Developer m:0414 842 795 | e:seo...@gmail.com

[Chris Peters]

You're welcome. 👍