Last updated: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 18:56

Routes redirect HTTP requests to the good controller and method of him.

The default router of Berlioz Framework is the package ** berlioz/router** (version ^2.0).

Basic declaration

You can add PHP attributes to the methods of your controllers, like this:

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route')]
    public function methodName()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Accepted arguments on routes attributes:

  • path: path of route (type: string|null)
  • defaults: an array of default values of attributes (type: array)
  • requirements: an array of attributes requirements (type: array)
  • name: name of route (type: string|null)
  • method: a method or array of HTTP methods accepted by the route (type: string|array|null)
  • host: a host or an array of hosts accepted by the route (type: string|array|null)
  • priority: priority of the route (type: int)
  • options: options for application (type: array)

Example with some options:

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}', name: 'myRoute', defaults: ['attr' => 'foo'])]
    public function methodName()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Route with attributes

You can add some dynamic attributes in your routes, attributes are named and must be encapsulated by { and }.

Attributes are transmitted in a ServerRequest object of PSR-7 in argument of controller method. And accessible with getAttribute() method.

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;
use Berlioz\Http\Message\ServerRequest;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}')]
    public function methodName(ServerRequest $request)
    {
        $request->getAttribute('attr'); // Value of 'attr' attribute in the path

        // ...
    }
}

Requirement mask

You can define a requirement mask for a specific attribute, it's very useful to limit internal errors if you search need only int values for an attribute for example.

The requirements option accept only array object like value. The key represents the attribute name and value a regex mask.

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}', requirements: ['attr' => '\\d+'])]
    public function methodName()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Priority

In some cases, you need to set priority between routes, because the global mask of 2 requests are concurrent, like this routes:

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;
use Berlioz\Http\Message\ServerRequest;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}')]
    public function methodName(ServerRequest $request)
    {
        // ...
    }

    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/new')]
    public function methodName2()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

To define the priority to a route, add priority option to the route with int value, more the value is greater, more the route will be priority (default value: -1). In our example, to do the second route priority:

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;
use Berlioz\Http\Message\ServerRequest;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}', priority: 0)]
    public function methodName(ServerRequest $request)
    {
        // ...
    }

    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/new', priority: 1)]
    public function methodName2()
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Default values

You can define default values in option of the route, in case of you generate them without specify attribute.

The defaults option accept only array object like value. The key represents the attribute name and value the default value.

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;
use Berlioz\Http\Message\ServerRequest;

class MyController
{
    #[Berlioz\Route('/my-route/{attr}', defaults: ['attr' => 'new'])]
    public function methodName(ServerRequest $request)
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Group of routes

For routes with same parameters, you can define a route group attribute to the controller.

Example:

use Berlioz\Http\Core\Attribute as Berlioz;

#[Berlioz\RouteGroup('/root-path', requirements: ['id' => '\d+'])]
class MyController
{
    // ...
}

All the parameters will be merged with the parameters of the route, except the path which will be concatenated with the path of the route.

Declaration of routes in configuration

You can also declare routes in your configuration. To do, create a routes.json file in your configuration directory.

An example of routes.json file:

{
  "routes": [
    {
      "path": "/my-route",
      "context": [
        "My\\Project\\Controller\\MyController",
        "myMethod"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/my-route/{attribute}",
      "requirements": {
        "attribute": "\\d+"
      },
      "priority": 0,
      "context": [
        "My\\Project\\Controller\\MyController",
        "mySecondMethod"
      ]
    }
  ]
}