Do you use a routers for doGet, doPost?

[Alex]

Hi!

Do you use a router for doGet, doPost? Which one?

Can you share a public repo of that?

Best, Alex.

[Alan Wells]

Do you mean having the code do something different depending upon some value being passed to it?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/30127428/2946873

[Dimu Designs]

There is an undocumented feature where you can add custom paths to a web app url for routing (and you can reference that path via the 'pathInfo' property on the event object). But you'll have to pass a user access token with the request (for both GET and POST) regardless of the settings used to deploy the web app. 

[Alan Wells]

How is the access token processed in the Apps Script Web App?

Thursday, January 23, 2020  Dimu Designs wrote:

There is an undocumented feature where you can add custom paths to a web app url for routing (and you can reference that path via the 'pathInfo' property on the event object). But you'll have to pass a user access token with the request (for both GET and POST) regardless of the settings used to deploy the web app. 

Thursday, January 23, 2020 Alex wrote:

[Dimu Designs]

You can pass it as a url variable ("access_token=[ACCESS_TOKEN_VALUE]") or in the Authorization header as a Bearer token when making requests to the web url (and if I recall correctly, you may need to have the Drive API enabled as well). I'm not sure, but the last time I played with it, it seemed that only the owner of the script could access routing this way, so its probably not something you can scale to multiple users. Maybe that's why its undocumented...

[Alan Wells]

Okay, I guess the reason to pass an Access Token, would be to run a service on behalf of the user, to access the users account, even though the project is owned by the developer? 

I'm not sure what Alex meant by "use a router?"

Thursday, January 23 Dimu Designs wrote:

You can pass it as a url variable ("access_token=[ACCESS_TOKEN_VALUE]") when making requests to the web url or in the Authorization header as a Bearer token. I'm not sure, but the last time I played with it, it seemed that only the owner of the script could access routing this way, so its probably not something you can scale to multiple users.

[David Gentile]

Have a watch of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LHPU0dYyrU

Typically you're using a router for doGet and redirecting a request to a specific page.

In my projects it would look like "<url>?v=view_order&id=123456"

This will load the "order" html file, and also pass the "id" value which is used to load dynamic content.

My doGet function looks like this

function doGet(e) {

  

  var parameters = e.parameters;

  

  return Router(parameters);

  

}

Then my Router function looks like this

function Router(parameters) {

  var view, id;

  view = 'v' in parameters ? parameters.v[0] : null ;

  id = 'id' in parameters ? parameters.id[0] : null;

  switch (view) {

    case 'orders':

      return loadOrders();

    

    case 'view_order':

      return loadOrder(id);

   
    default:

      return loadOrders();

  }

}

function loadOrders() {

  var orderData = getUpcomingOrders();

  var orders = orderData.orders;

  return render("Views/Pages/Orders/index", {

    orders: orders

  });

}

function loadOrder(id) {

  var orderData = getOrder(id);

  var order = createOrderObj(orderData);

  return render("Views/Pages/View_Order/index", {

    order: order,

  });

}

Finally I have a "render" function which loads the html template and passes in any template arguments

function render(file, argsObject){

  var html = HtmlService.createTemplateFromFile(file);

 
  if(argsObject) {

    var keys = Object.keys(argsObject);

    keys.forEach(function(key){

      html[key] = argsObject[key];

    });

  }

  

  return html.evaluate().setXFrameOptionsMode(HtmlService.XFrameOptionsMode.ALLOWALL);

}

Hope that's helpful!

[Alex]

Do you mean having the code do something different depending upon some value being passed to it?

Yes I do. I mean do you use ready-made modules of GAS or pure JS for that?

There is an undocumented feature where you can add custom paths to a web app url for routing

Yep. It seems this feature may be helpful

I'm not sure what Alex meant by "use a router?"

 @aj I practice to in English. Im very glad that you understand me at least a little. Thanks!

Have a watch of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LHPU0dYyrU

Exactly! I'm using a dictionary pattern as a router too. But sometimes I need something more advanced. For an example I want to control what i have into var contents = JSON.parse(e.postData.contents);
and I'd like omit or rise exceptions via chaining. Something like this would be cool

function doPost(e){
  var router = new Route(e);
  router.matches(); // <== the rules for checkers
  return router
    .on(checker, callback)
    .on(checker, callback)
    .resolve();
}

Hope it's clean!

[Clark Lind]

Ashton Fey did something similar which may give you some ideas. (https://youtu.be/xMIYGXLOBcM). His code is linked here: https://script.google.com/d/161193BTweCReKhgKMOyKZoq3GA3TuK3WJCnxVrJtElwLU0Syg_oH6PkU/edit?usp=drive_open

[Alex]

OK. Thanks!

[Ali Nabavi]

Thank you!  :-)

Silly question: why is "Router" capitalized there?

-Ali