When using $RESOURCES as routes, a malformed DELETE (missing an ID) will result in a mismatching action

[mjhagen]

(as posted on the CFML Slack's #fw1)

This makes sense, but I would like the framework to account for that and maybe provide a better way handling expected errors in routes.

Example:
I have a subsystem with my API in it (api:) and when I call this URL: DELETE /api/myObject/1 that will be rewritten by fw/1 to api:myObject.destroy?id=1 but when I call DELETE /api/myObject it gets rewritten to defaultsubsystem:api.myObject where I would like it to recognize the pattern and either throw a 404 or a 500 (I'm not sure which is more RESTful).

[mjhagen]

I've created an example app displaying this behavior: https://github.com/mjhagen/SSCCE/tree/master/fw1-392
The http call is in views/main/default.cfm

[seancorfield]

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[seancorfield]

A possible solution here is to allow per-resource error handling. You can try this by setting the resource template in you configuration: copy the framework default and add a line that has a method of "error" and matches the http method "$*". This will route anything that "almost matches" to /api:myObject/error so you can do better handling.

I think I'll add a perResourceError flag to enable this in core. How does that sound?

I could just add that as the default and let folks who want the old behavior set it false I guess. This is a 4.0 release after all.

[seancorfield]

Try the develop branch version and see how you like that: it implements the per-resource error handling described above.

[seancorfield]

@mjhagen Any thoughts on this new error-handling behavior?