Rails routes are great for matching RESTful style '/' separated bits of a URL, but can I match query parameters in a map.connect
config. I want different controllers/actions to be invoked depending on the presence of a parameter after the '?'
.
I was trying something like this...
map.connect "api/my/path?apple=:applecode", :controller => 'apples_controller', :action => 'my_action'
map.connect "api/my/path?banana=:bananacode", :controller => 'bananas_controller', :action => 'my_action'
For routing purposes I don't care about the value of the parameter, as long as it is available to the controller in the params
hash
The following solution is based on the "Advanced Constraints" section of the "Rails Routing from the Outside In" rails guide (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html).
In your config/routes.rb file, include a recognizer class have a matches? method, e.g.:
class FruitRecognizer
def initialize(fruit_type)
@fruit_type = fruit_type.to_sym
end
def matches?(request)
request.params.has_key?(@fruit_type)
end
end
Then use objects from the class as routing constraints, as in:
map.connect "api/my/path", :contraints => FruitRecognizer.new(:apple), :controller => 'apples_controller', :action => 'my_action'
Unless there is a concrete reason why you can't change this, why not just make it restful?
map.connect "api/my/path/bananas/:id, :controller => "bananas_controller", :action => "my_action"
If you have many parameters, why not use a POST
or a PUT
so that your parameters don't need to be exposed by the url?