plugin.location

[jeffm13]

Any plans for a plugin.location function that combines the server.location() value with the plugin route prefix?

[hueniverse]

What's the use case?

[jeffm13]

Generating _link (HAL style hyperlinks) inside a resource generated by a plugin. For example, a customer resource generated by a plugin with a prefix of:

    server.pack.register({
        plugin: require('mycustomer'),
 }, { prefix: '/myCustomerService/v1' }, function() ...

with a route:

   { method: 'GET', path: '/customers', handler: ... }

should look like this:

{
    'name': 'John Doe',
    '_links': {
        'rel': 'self',
        'href': '/myCustomerService/v1/customers/123456'
    }
}

I could kludge a way to pull it from the request uri, but it would be more convenient if I could pull the prefix from the plugin itself.

[hueniverse]

Wouldn't that logic happen inside a handler? Why can't you just use request.path?

[jeffm13]

Yes the logic happens inside a handler. I simplified the use case to show only a 'self' link, but I've got multiple routes that can be used for this resource--all of which are entries in the plug-in's route table. My thought was to construct the _links by traversing the route paths. But to provide the complete href for each route, I'd need to know the plug-in route prefix.

I could parse the request.path, but that feels like a kludge. I could also pass the prefix as an option to the plugin--probably an easier solution, but also not ideal. If the plugin had a location method (or at least a way to access its prefix) it would make for a cleaner implementation.

[bleupen]

You might consider using my hal library for hapi:

https://www.npmjs.org/package/halacious

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