Route.resource with optional :id for update, destroy, show methods

[ad-on-is]

I prefer using Route.resource('endpoint').only(['index', 'update']) over defining specific post, delete, etc. endpoints.

Sometimes I just need a DELETE or PUT request without an :id parameter.

Is there some kind of configuration of the Route.resource() mechanism to make that parameter optional?

From an API point of view, would it be propriate to modify AdonisJS to allow that?

[thetutlage]

How can you delete something without an id?

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Example 1:
If I want to allow users to delete their account, the resource would be DELETE /users.
This would be a UsersController destroy action which deletes multiple things, based on auth.user.id

Example 2:
If I want to add products to a wishlist.
Route.resource('products.wishlist') would give me a PUT products/:product_id/wishlist/:id endpoint, but the :id for the wishlist itself in this case is unnecessary, since I want to update something based on the :product_id only.

[arthurcvm]

Hi @ad-on-is, in example 1 you can use middleware and validate if users have permission to do this.
In second example you need transform the Route.resource in a Route.group and personalize the PUT route sending all in request body.

[ad-on-is]

@arthurcvm My question is not about the technical implementation of the examples. I'm asking if their's anything wrong by making AdonisJS to handle the param :id optional for the generated put,patch,delete methods in Route.resource()

[thetutlage]

Resource follows a convention and if you don't like that convention, then you simply register the routes manually and don't resource at all.

Changing convention is not possible.

However, as @bitkidd mentioned, there are singular resources which kind of works the way you want. But AdonisJS doesn't have a shortcut for them yet

[ad-on-is]

Ah, I see... thank you anyway 👍