why not have a dictionary?
controllers = {'route-me-if-you-can': any_time_you_want}
if lookup misses method name is searched as it is?
The admin interface could expose a way to do it easy.
mic
2010/8/25 Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com>:
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 1:42 AM, Kevin wrote:
>
>> It would be safe for the routing code to treat hyphens as underscores
>> when matching for app, controller, or function, though -- since web2py
>> (and python) semantics require that the code itself uses underscores.
>> Of course underscores in the rest of the URL would have to pass
>> through untouched.
>
> Are Python restrictions relevant for applications and controllers? Or just
> filename restrictions? I'm not sure.
>
>>
>> Reverse translation is not an issue, since I could just do something
>> like:
>>
>> {{= DASH(URL(...)) }}
>>
>> Where DASH replaces all underscores with hyphens (which is acceptable
>> for me, since I don't use any underscores in URLs), though it would be
>> handy to make the routes.py configurable to do that automatically in
>> the URL call itself if I wanted.
>
> It could be an option to URL, I suppose. I'm thinking that you wouldn't want
> to translate underscores in the query string.
>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 9:46 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 24, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Kevin wrote:
>>>
>>>> As far as I can find, you have to set up web2py routes to do this --
>>>> it's pretty easy to do redirection using routes (using routes_in), but
>>>> I'm not aware of any way off-hand to do the equivalent of rewriting/
>>>> translation the URL for inbound requests (routes_out does to
>>>> translation).
>>>
>>> I think it would be difficult, unless you explicitly translated known
>>> controller names. Which you could do...
>>>
>>> We could translate incoming hyphens to underscores, I suppose, without too
>>> much effort, but we wouldn't know whether to reverse the translation on the
>>> outbound side.
>>>
>>> Come the revolution (new rewrite logic), all things will be possible. But
>>> no promises on a schedule.
>>>
>>> We *could* simply allow hyphens in controller names, without translation.
>>> We can't do that with functions, since they need to function as Python
>>> identifiers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This is something I (and doubtless) many others need as well, and it
>>>> really should be a (default enabled) option for web2py to
>>>> automatically treat URL-embedded hyphens as though they were
>>>> underscores for matching app, controller and function names, and an
>>>> optionally enablable setting to make all generated routes use hyphens
>>>> instead of underscores for apps, controllers, and functions.
>>>
>>>> The open-and-shut arguments for using hyphens boil down to (in order
>>>> of severity):
>>>
>>>> * Underscores are obscured when URLs are underlined
>>>> * Hyphens are easier to type than underscores – no need for the shift
>>>> key
>>>> * Hyphens are easier to read
>>>> * Underscores are a typographical construction invented primarily for
>>>> underlining characters (<key> <backspace> <underscore> on a
>>>> typewriter), and today is used primarily in programming and other
>>>> technical contexts. In short, there is little justification for
>>>> exposing back-end considerations to the world.
>>>
>>>> Many references can be found on this subject:
>>>
>>>> *http://pylonsbook.com/en/1.1/urls-routing-and-dispatch.html#choosing-...
>>>> *http://semicolons.org/post/256699383/friendly-urls
>>>> *http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/content-optimization/use-hyphens-not-...
>>>
>>>> This is one of the sore points I have with anything I put on the web
>>>> -- to provide what I feel is a correct URL scheme to the user, I'll
>>>> bypass or override half of the backend code if necessary, which is
>>>> suboptimal.
>>>
>>>> Web2py is very close to making it easy to provide URLs that'll
>>>> withstand the scrutiny of bloggers -- besides the hyphen bit, all I
>>>> really see as being needed is:
>>>
>>>> * The aforementioned settings for hyphenization.
>>>
>>>> * in routes_in and routes_out add the ability to supply a function/
>>>> lambda in the second index of any inner two-tuple, which would receive
>>>> a match object and return a string. For example, the following could
>>>> be a stop-gap way to perform this kind of underscore-to-hyphen
>>>> conversion:
>>>
>>>> routes_out = ( (r'/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)(/?P<any>.*)?',
>>>> lambda match: '/'.join(part.replace('_', '-') for part in
>>>> match.groups()) + match.group('any')), )
>>>
>>>> On Aug 24, 7:47 pm, Cory Coager <ccoa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> How do you use dashes in controller names? I get errors, "Invalid
>>>>> request".
>>>
>>>
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