Hi,
Nested Routes often have what seems to be extra information, and I’m
not certain why.
I can understand why “GET /projects/1/iterations” needs to have a
project id. However, why does “GET /projects/1/iterations/1234” need
to have the project id? It seems like “GET /projects/5678/iterations/
1234” would accomplish exactly the same thing unless the controller
explicitly checked for the fact that iteration 1234 doesn’t have
project 5678 as it’s parent.
I assume this is done for resource identification consistency.
Because the URL represents a resource, the resource should be
consistently named, even though some of the information isn’t needed.
Is this the case?
But that begs the question: do the two URLs refer to the same
resource? Logically it seems they shouldn’t. But from my
understanding of the internals, it looks like from the controllers
perspective they would be: both would refer to iteration 1234. What
am I not understanding? Are there automatic consistency checks?
Thanks,
Brad