Support for Uri Templates in v2?

[pmcevoy]

I realize that features for hyprlinkr are now fixed, so perhaps you could consider adding support for generating Uri Templates (ala http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570) in v-next?

[ploeh]

I usually do this:

Assume a SearchController with a Get method:

public HttpResponseMessage Get(string q)

In order to create a template from this, I do this:

Href = this.linker.GetUri<SearchController>(c =>
    c.Get("{query}")).ToString()

This automatically produces a URL like http://foo.com/search?q={query}.

Would that be usable, or do you need something more than that?

[pmcevoy]

I can certainly give it a go and see how far it gets me... although that looks like all controller method params would then need to be "string".

[ploeh]

Yes, but that's just an honest object model; URLs are strings, too ;)

[ploeh]

Does this answer your question?

[pmcevoy]

Sorry for not closing. Would be great if it was able to introspect and auto generate, but for now this digs me out of a hole...

[andresmoschini]

As I commented in #37, I think that it is very useful to accept typed parameters, here you have a quick and dirty implementation:

https://github.com/andresmoschini/hypermedia-api-poc/commit/3381397fab6375064e0dd18659cc90f917a11af6

The result is the follow:

{
  "links": [
    {
      "href": "/",
      "rel": "self home"
    },
    {
      "href": "/accounts",
      "rel": "account-collection",
      "description": "Account List"
    },
    {
      "href": "/accounts/128",
      "rel": "account-item",
      "description": "My account details"
    },
    {
      "href": "/accounts/{accountId}",
      "rel": "account-item",
      "description": "Other accounts"
    },
    {
      "href": "/accounts/{miPersonalizedText}",
      "rel": "account-item",
      "description": "Other accounts"
    }
  ]
}