Creating restful APIs

[yaworsw]

To create a restful API for posts you might think this would do it

$app->addRoutes(array(
    '/posts'      => array('Posts:index',  'get'),
    '/posts/:id'  => array('Posts:show',   'get'),
    '/posts'      => array('Posts:create', 'post'),
    // etc...
));

But obviously you can't have an array with duplicate keys so the second assignment to /posts will overwrite the first and there won't be a route pointing to Posts:index.

Right now a possible work around would be to use addControllerRoute which would go something like

$app->addControllerRoute('/posts', 'Posts:index')
    ->via('GET');

$app->addControllerRoute('/posts/:id', 'Posts:show')
    ->via('GET');

$app->addControllerRoute('/posts', 'Posts:create')
    ->via('POST');

// etc...

But that doesn't seem as elegant as it could be.

I was wondering if we could think of a better way to define multiple routes that point to the same url with different HTTP methods.