hapi-resourceful-routes

Generates Rails-y resourceful routes for use with the Hapi router.

Usage

Given a simple controller API:

var thingsController = {
  index : function( request ) {
    request.reply({ things : [ ... ] });
  },
  show : function( request ) {
    request.reply({ thing: 'thing number ' + request.params.thing_id });
  },
  edit :
  ...
}

You can generate routes by supplying a name:

var resource = require( "hapi-resourceful" )

hapiServer.route( resource({
  name : "thing",
  controller : thingsController
}) );

Which is equivalent to:

hapiServer.route([
  {
    method : "GET",
    path : "/things",
    handler : thingsController.index
  },
  {
    method : "GET",
    path : "/things/{thing_id}",
    handler : thingsController.show
  },
  ...
]);

Controller actions are mapped as follows:

index    :  GET     /things
new      :  GET     /things/new
create   :  POST    /things
show     :  GET     /things/{thing_id}
edit     :  GET     /things/{thing_id}/edit
update   :  PUT     /things/{thing_id}
destroy  :  DELETE  /things/{thing_id}

Nesting

In order to nest a resource inside another, include another resource definition using the key sub:

var resource = require( "hapi-resourceful" )

hapiServer.route( resource({
  name : "thing",
  controller : thingsController,
  sub : {
    name : "widget",
    controller : widgetsController
  }
}) );

Which would generate routes like this:

/things
/things/{thing_id}
/things/{thing_id}/widgets
/things/{thing_id}/widgets/{widget_id}

Resouces can be nested multiple levels deep.

Options

• name (required) - Singular name of resource
• controller (required) - Object containing one or more handler functions OR Hapi route config objects
• namespace - String containing a namespace to prefix to each route. (eg admin would give the route /admin/things/{thing_id})
• plural - String containing the pluralization of the name to override the automatically generated guess
• sub - Another object containing these options to describe a nested resource

Inspiration/Links

• Rails
• express-resource