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POCorrect routing for a Rest API with Zend
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    copied!<p>I'm trying to implement a REST API to my website.</p> <p>My problem is that the default Zend routing gets in the way. I've first tried using Zend_Rest_Route but I haven't been able to understand how I was supposed to use it correctly for "deep" routes, aka website/api/resource1/filter/resource2/id.</p> <p>Using the default Zend routing, I'd need to create a gigantic Resource1Controller to take care of all the possible actions, and I don't think it's the "good" way to do this.</p> <p>I've tried using Resauce ( <a href="http://github.com/mikekelly/Resauce/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://github.com/mikekelly/Resauce/</a>), creating an api module and adding routes, but I'm not able to get it working correctly : </p> <p>The patterns I added were : </p> <pre><code> $this-&gt;addResauceRoutes(array( 'api/resource' =&gt; 'resource', 'api/resource/:id' =&gt; 'custom', 'api/resource/filter' =&gt; 'resource-filter', 'api/resource/filter/:id' =&gt; 'custom', )); </code></pre> <p>Which then leads to this : </p> <pre><code>public function addResauceRoutes($routes) { $router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()-&gt;getRouter(); foreach ($routes as $pattern =&gt; $controller) { $router-&gt;addRoute($controller, new Zend_Controller_Router_Route($pattern, array( 'module' =&gt; 'api', 'controller' =&gt; $controller ) ) ); } Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()-&gt;setRouter($router); </code></pre> <ul> <li>website/api/resource gets me the Resource1Controller, ok</li> <li>website/api/resource/filter gets me to the resource1filterController, ok</li> <li>website/api/resource/filter/:id gets me to a custom controller, ok</li> <li>I'd like for website/api/resource/:id to get me to the same custom controller... But it redirects me to the Resource1Controller.</li> </ul> <p>What solution is there for me to correctly create my API ? Is there a good way to do this with Zend_Rest_Route ?</p> <hr> <p>Edit : Mike,</p> <p>I felt that it was not appropriate for me to use different controllers since I need the pathes "website/api/resource/:id" and "website/api/resource/filter/:id" to give me almost the exact same result (the only difference is that because the filter is there, I may get a message telling "content filtered" here). </p> <p>I thought it was a waste creating another almost identical controller when I could've used the same controller and just checked if a parameter "filter" was present. </p> <p>However, I don't want to use the basic Zend routing since for the path "website/api/resource/filter/resource2" I'd like to have a totally different comportment, so I'd like to use another controller, especially since I'm trying to use Zend_Rest_Action and need my controllers to use the basic actions getAction(), putAction(), postAction() and deleteAction().</p>
 

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