Basic Routing
There is only one method responsible for adding routes to your application:
app.addRoute('<method>', '<path>', requestHandler);
However, the following methods are available for convenience, and are the ones you will use most often. Each method's name responds to an HTTP request method. For example, a route declared with
app.get(...), will respond to HTTP GET requests.app.get('<path>', requestHandler);
app.post('<path>', requestHandler);
app.patch('<path>', requestHandler);
app.delete('<path>', requestHandler);
Your
requestHandler should take the following form:typedef FutureOr<dynamic> RequestHandler(RequestContext req, ResponseContext res);
Your
requestHandler can return any Dart value, whether a function, or an object. See the Requests and Responses pages for detailed documentation.Route paths do not have to begin with a forward slash, as leading and trailing slashes are stripped from route paths internally.
Say you're building an API, or an MVC application. You typically want to serve the same view template on multiple paths, corresponding to different ID's. You can do this as follows, and all parameters will be available via
req.params:app.get('/todos/:id', (req, res) async => {'id': req.params['id']});
Remember, route parameters must be preceded by a colon (':'). Parameter names must start with a letter or underscore, optionally followed by letters, underscores, or numbers. Parameters will match any character except a forward slash ('/') in a request URI.
Examples:
:id:_hello:param123info_about_:username
With a special syntax, you can build routes that automatically parse parameters as
ints or doubles:app
..get('/add/int:number', (req, res) => req.params['number'] * 3)
..get('/multiply/double:number', (req, res) => req.params['number'] * 5.0);
Route parameters can also have custom regular expressions, to remove the requirement of manual parsing. Simply enclose the regular expression in a set of parentheses following the parameter's name.
app.get(r'/number/:num([0-9]+(\.[0-9])?)', ...);
You can
mount routers, or use entire sub-apps.var app = new Angel();
app.get('/', 'Hello!');
var subRouter = new Router()..get('/', 'Subroute');
app.mount('/sub', subApp);
// Now, you can visit /sub and receive the message "Subroute"
var subApp = new Angel()..get('/hello', 'world');
app.use('/api', subApp);
// GET /api/hello returns "world"
Routes can also be grouped together. Route parameters will be applied to sub-routes automatically. Route groups can be nested as well.
app.group('/user/:id', (router) {
router
..get('/messages', (String id) => fetchUserMessages(id))
..group('/nested', ...);
});
For more documentation on the router, see its repository.
package:angel_route has no dart:io or dart:mirrors dependency, and it also supports browser use (both hash and push state).Last modified 4yr ago