Adding an additional information to route

[misterjt]

I need to store the information about what view to use in the routes. And every day without this feature in the Barista Router one kitten is crying.

[kieran]

You can attach arbitrary default params to a route:

// define the route                       with default params
router.get('/posts/:id').to('posts.show', {lang:'en'} )

// resolve it later
router.first('/posts/5','GET')
//=> { controller: 'posts', action: 'show', id: 5, lang:'en' }

The original use case was defining defaults for route segments:

router.get('/posts/:id(.:format)').to('posts.show', {format:'pdf'} )

router.first('/posts/5','GET')
//=> { controller: 'posts', action: 'show', id: 5, format:'pdf' }

router.first('/posts/5.html','GET')
//=> { controller: 'posts', action: 'show', id: 5, format:'html' }

but you could use it for whatever you want I guess...

Although I have no idea what you're doing specifically, specifying a view in the route seems like The Wrong Thing To Do™