Step 8 pretify urls

Step 8 - pretify urls

Purpose: in this step we will see how play helps us build human readeble and elegants urls.

cd ~/devel/apps
git clone git@github.com:opensas/play-demo.git
git checkout origin/08-pretify_urls

See current urls

If you pay attention to our app, these are the current urls

add an event    -> GET       application/form
edit an event   -> GET       application/form?id=xxx
save changes    -> POST      application/save
delete an event -> DELETE    delete/xxx

We can do better than that! So open routes files and add the following routes:

conf/routes

# Home page
GET     /                               Application.list
GET     /events                         Application.list

GET	/edit/{id}			Application.form
GET	/new				Application.form

POST	/save				Application.save

DELETE	/delete/{id}			Application.delete

GET	/load				Application.loadFromYaml

*	/admin				module:crud

# Ignore favicon requests
GET     /favicon.ico                            404

# Map static resources from the /app/public folder to the /public path
GET     /public/                                staticDir:public

# Catch all
# *       /{controller}/{action}                  {controller}.{action}

For security reasons, it is always a good advice to comment the catch all route when going in production.

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Our site is ready, now we are going to Step 9 - authentication.