routing.md

Routing

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Routing is written in main.nim. it is the entrypoint file of Basolato.

import basolato
import app/controllers/some_controller

var routes = newRoutes()

routes.get("/", some_controller.index)
routes.post("/", some_controller.create)

Table of Contents

• Routing
  • HTTP_Verbs
  • Routing group
  • URL Params

HTTP_Verbs

Following HTTP Verbs are valid.

verb	explanation
get	Gets list of resources.
post	Creates new resource.
put	Updates single resource.
patch	Updates single resource.
delete	Deletes single resource.
head	Gets the same response but without response body.
options	Gets list of response headers before post/put/patch/delete/ access by client API software such as Axios/JavaScript and Curl/sh.
trace	Performs a message loop-back test along the path to the target resource, providing a useful debugging mechanism.
connect	Starts two-way communications with the requested resource. It can be used to open a tunnel.

Routing group

import basolato
import app/controllers/some_controller
import app/controllers/dashboard_controller


var routes = newRoutes()

routes.get("/", some_controller.index)

groups "/dashboard":
  routes.get("/url1", dashboard_controller.url1)
  routes.get("/url2", dashboard_controller.url2)

/dashboard/url1 and /dashboard/url2 are available.

URL Params

Basolato can specify url params with type of int and str

import basolato
import app/controllers/some_controller

var routes = newRoutes()

routes.get("/{id:int}", some_controller.show)
routes.get("/{name:str}", some_controller.showByName)

request URL	Called controller
/1	some_controller.show
/100	some_controller.show
/john	some_controller.showByName
/1/john	not match and responde 404