Api: Better Url Generator

[Ryuske]

A better way to generate URLs would be nice.

app('Dingo\Api\Routing\UrlGenerator')->version('v1')->route('account.get', ['id' => $account->id])

is crazy long and not very enjoyable to look at. Even if I could just do something like:

$this->urlGenerator = app('Dingo\Api\Routing\UrlGenerator')

in the constructor (like I would with validator, or almost anything else in app() that is reused) would help a ton. However, that particular example segfaults (I have no idea, I couldn't find an actual error message in any of the logs after looking for a couple hours).

$this->urlGenerator = new \Dingo\Api\Routing\UrlGenerator(new \Illuminate\Http\Request)

almost worked, but it returned "Fatal error: Call to a member function getByName() on null". Anyway to reduce the amount of code I have to write for EVERY URL I want to generate would be fantastic! Thanks.

[jasonlewis]

Main issue here is that the controller basically gets stuck an in infinite loop because the UrlGenerator attempts to load the routes which attempts to create a new route which instantiates the controller. Going to tweak a couple of things here.

There's a version helper function though.

version('v1')->route('account.get', [$account->id]);

[christoph-kluge]

@jasonlewis thanks for sharing! I was using api.url until now but your version makes it again a bit shorter!

app('api.url')->version('v1')->route('account.get', [$account->id]);

[Ryuske]

Awesome, that's quite a bit shorter. Thanks!

[oleynikd]

How can I force it to be HTTPS url? URL::forceSchema('https'); does not seem to work here...
Thanks.

[gazben]

@oleynikd and to anyone reading this.
Solution:
Put the app('Dingo\Api\Routing\UrlGenerator')->forceScheme('https'); function call to the end of the RouteService provider map() function (after the application mapped the routes).

[specialtactics]

Thanks @gazben

I have created a new wiki page with the goal of documenting little tibits of information like this;
https://github.com/dingo/api/wiki/Misc