makallio85/yaml-route

Yaml-route provides possibility to configure CakePHP 3 routes with simple yaml files.

Yaml-route

Yaml-route provides possibility to configure CakePHP 3 routes with simple YAML files. This is basically just wrapper for CakePHP core routing that parses YAML files and makes proper calls to Cake\Core\Router.

Main goal is not to implement all fancy features that CakePHP 3 routing provides, only those ones that are really needed. Of course this is relative to developer, so feel free to fork and commit your own code.

Installation

composer require makallio85/yaml-route

Usage

1. Replace all contents in config/routes.php file with single method call makallio85\YamlRoute\Generator::getInstance()->run()
2. Load all plugins by calling makallio85\YamlRoute\Plugin::getInstance()->load($plugin, $options) Method is basically just wrapper for Cake\Core\Plugin::load() method. Note that Cake\Core\Plugin::loadAll() method is not supported and all plugins should be loaded one at time.
3. Add your own route to routes.yml files to your project and desired plugins.

About route configuration

Every route is automatically named with its key. Root route should be named as root by convention. Route can contain path and config keys. Path is always string but config can be string that references to another YAML file that contains routes configuration. Syntax for external path is "PluginName.RouteFileNameWithoutExtension". All route configurations should be placed in config folder of project or plugin.

Route can also contain subroutes and they are defined inside config.routes key

config key can contain keys listed below

Key	Type	Description
controller	string	Route controller
action	string	Route action
plugin	string	Route plugin
_method	array or string	Route method
extensions	array	Allowed extensions
routes	array	Subroutes
validate	array	List of variables to validate

Note that subroutes can't contain routes so config.routes for subroutes is not available.

Examples

Basic routing

config/routes.yml like this

root:
  path: /

Turns into this

\Cake\Routing\Router::scope('/', [], function ($routes) {
	$routes->fallbacks('DashedRoute');
});

\Cake\Core\Plugin::routes();

Plugin Routing

plugins/PluginCars/config/routes.yml like this

cars:
  path: /cars
  config:
    plugin: PluginCars
    controller: Cars
    action: index
    extensions:
      - json
      - xml
    routes:
      bmws_list:
        path: /bmws
        config:
          controller: Bmws
      bmws_view:
        path: /bmws/{id}
        config:
          _method: GET
          controller: Bmws
          action: view
          validate:
            id: '[0-9]+'
      bmws_add:
        path: /bmws/add
        config:
          _method: POST
          controller: Bmws
          action: add
      ladas:
        path: /ladas
        config:
          controller: Ladas

Turns into this

\Cake\Routing\Router::plugin('PluginCars', ['path' => '/cars'], function ($routes) {
  $routes->extensions(['0' => 'json', '1' => 'xml']);
  $routes->connect('/', ['plugin' => 'PluginCars', 'controller' => 'Cars', 'action' => 'index'], ['_name' => 'cars']);
  $routes->connect('/bmws', ['controller' => 'Bmws'], ['_name' => 'bmws_list']);
  $routes->connect('/bmws/:id', ['_method' => 'GET', 'controller' => 'Bmws', 'action' => 'view'], ['_name' => 'bmws_view', 'pass' => ['0' => 'id'], 'id' => '[0-9]+']);
  $routes->connect('/bmws/add', ['_method' => 'POST', 'controller' => 'Bmws', 'action' => 'add'], ['_name' => 'bmws_add']);
  $routes->connect('/ladas', ['controller' => 'Ladas'], ['_name' => 'ladas']);
  $routes->fallbacks('DashedRoute');
});

\Cake\Core\Plugin::routes();

Debugging

If you want to debug generated routes, you can set debug parameter to true when calling makallio85\YamlRoute\Generator::getInstance()->run(true). After that, you are able to get executed calls by calling makallio85\YamlRoute\Generator::getInstance()->getDump().

toDo

• Add support for true inheritance by allowing subroute to contain subroute
• Add tests Add more tests
• Refactor classes
• Add support for extensions
• Improve exception handling

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 makallio85

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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