How to set up Hierarchical Zend Rest Routes?
- by Kenji Baheux
With the Zend Framework, I am trying to build routes for a REST api on resources organized in the following pattern:
http://example.org/users/
http://example.org/users/234
http://example.org/users/234/items
http://example.org/users/234/items/34
How do I set up this with Zend_Rest_Route?
Here is how I have setup the route for the users resource (users/:id) in my bootstrap.php file:
$this->bootstrap('frontController');
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$restRoute = new Zend_Rest_Route($frontController);
$frontController->getRouter()->addRoute('default', $restRoute);
[As far as I understand, this is a catch all route so users/324/items/34 would results in parameters set as id=324 and items=34 and everything would be mapped to the Users (front module) Model. From there I guess I could just test for the items parameter and retrieve the item #34 for user #324 on a get request.]<=== I just checked it and it doesn't seems to work like that:
Acessing /users/234/items/43 and
var_dump($this->_getAllParams());
in the get action of the rest controller results in the following output:
array(4) {
["controller"]=> string(5) "users"
["action"]=> string(3) "get"
[2]=> string(5) "items" ["module"]=> string(7) "default"]
}
Somehow both ids got lost...
Anyone?
