madvoc-route

JavaScript parser for Madvoc routes configuration file.

Madvoc is MVC framework that uses CoC and annotations in a pragmatic way to simplify web application development. It is easy to use, learning curve is small and it is easy to extend. There are no external (xml) configuration, actions are simple POJOs, it is compatible with any view technology, its pluggable and so on…

Introduction

Parses madvoc routes syntax into a madvoc.Route JavaScript object model. Supported routes:

/helloworld my.app.HelloAction#method
GET /helloworld my.app.HelloAction#method
POST /helloworld my.app.HelloAction#method route_alias
/helloworld/${boo:regex} my.app.HelloAction#method

See more routing options in the test case file.

Examples

Require the module

var madvoc = require('madvoc-route');

Madvoc route module exposes two classes: madvoc.RouteConfigurator and madvoc.Route.

Parse routes:

The parse method could be manually invoked from a madvoc.RouteConfiguration instance:

var routeConfigurator = new madvoc.RouteConfigurator();
 
routeConfigurator.parse('/helloworld my.app.HelloAction#hello');
 
routeConfigurator.getRoutes();
// [[actionClass=my.app.HelloAction,actionMethod='hello',alias=null,async=false,httpMethod=GET,path=/helloworld]]

Or you can parse multiple routes:

var routeConfigurator = new madvoc.RouteConfigurator();
 
routeConfigurator.parse(
    '/helloworld1 my.app.HelloAction#hello\n' + 
    '/helloworld2 my.app.HelloAction#hello');
 
routeConfigurator.getRoutes();
// [[actionClass=my.app.HelloAction,actionMethod='hello',alias=null,async=false,httpMethod=GET,path=/helloworld1],
//  [actionClass=my.app.HelloAction,actionMethod='hello',alias=null,async=false,httpMethod=GET,path=/helloworld2]]

Setup routes.txt

To keep your project organized and easier to maintain you can place all routes of your application into a file called, for example, routes.txt and we parse that for you:

Routes.txt

/helloworld1 my.app.HelloAction#hello
/helloworld2 my.app.HelloAction#hello

var routeConfigurator = new madvoc.RouteConfigurator('routes.txt');
 
routeConfigurator.getRoutes();
// [[actionClass=my.app.HelloAction,actionMethod='hello',alias=null,async=false,httpMethod=GET,path=/helloworld1],
//  [actionClass=my.app.HelloAction,actionMethod='hello',alias=null,async=false,httpMethod=GET,path=/helloworld2]]