Method of path module routing?

[jackHedaya]

Hey!

Is there a way to group routes together on certain dynamic paths using Rocket? For example,

/client/<client>/

• /signup
• /signin
• /forgot_password
• /2fa

business/<business>

• /say_hello
• /say_world

I know all these routes could be declared by themselves but it would be great to group by module or something. Thanks!

[somehowchris]

@jackHedaya Totally with you on that. It would be amazing to have these parameters in that „base path“.

What you currently could do:
/client/

• /<client>/signup
• /<client>/signin
• /<client>/forgot_password
• /<client>/2fa

/business/

• /<business>/say_hello
• /<business>/say_world

[jackHedaya]

Gotcha, I guess it's not such a big deal to keep rewriting the base path. Thanks for your response!

[zertyz]

To accomplish this, I specify the base path when mounting routes -- you can concatenate several mount calls
... and each module declares it's routes as being in the root path.

Example:

main:

    rocket::build()
        .mount(api::BASE_PATH, routes![
            api::hello,
        ])
        .mount(backend::BASE_PATH, routes![
            backend::info,
        ])
        .launch().await

api module:

pub const BASE_PATH: &str = "/api";
#[get("/hello")]
pub fn hello() -> &'static str {
    "Hello, world!"
}

backend module:

pub const BASE_PATH: &str = "/backend";
#[get("/info")]
pub fn info() -> &'static str {
    "Backend written in Rust!"
}

$ curl localhost:8000/api/hello
Hello, world!
$ curl localhost:8000/backend/info
Backend written in Rust!