Aura Router AJAX Route Failure - Route Not Found

Question

To preface this question, I'm converting a demo application to utilize RESTful, SEO-friendly URLs; EVERY route with the exception of one of two routes used for AJAX requests works when being used in the application on the web, and ALL the routes have been completely tested using Postman - using a vanilla Nginx configuration.

That being said, here is the offending route definition(s) - the login being the defined route that's failing:

$routing_map->post('login.read', '/services/authentication/login', [
    'params' => [
        'values' => [
            'controller' => '\Infraweb\Toolkit\Services\Authentication',
            'action' => 'login',
        ]
    ]
])->accepts([
    'application/json',
]);

$routing_map->get('logout.read', '/services/authentication/logout', [
    'params' => [
        'values' => [
            'controller' => '\Infraweb\Toolkit\Services\Authentication',
            'action' => 'logout',
        ]
    ]
])->accepts([
    'application/json',
]);

With Postman & xdebug tracing I think I'm seeing that it's (obviously) failing what I believe to be a REGEX check in the Path rule, but I can't quite make it out. It's frustrating to say the least. I looked everywhere I could using web searches before posting here - the Google group for Auraphp doesn't seem to get much traffic these days. It's probable I've done something incorrectly, so I figured it was time to ask the collective user community for some direction. Any and all constructive criticism is greatly welcomed and appreciated.

Thanx in advance, and apologies for wasting anyone's bandwidth on this question...

Answer 1

Let me make something clear. Aura.Router doesn't do the dispatching. It only matches the route. It doesn't handle how your routes are handled.

See the full working example ( In that example the handler is assumed as callable )

$callable = $route->handler;
$response = $callable($request);

In your case if you matched the request ( See matching request )

$matcher = $routerContainer->getMatcher();
$route = $matcher->match($request);

you will get the route, now you need to write appropriate ways how to handle the values from the $route->handler.

This is what I did after var_dump the $route->handler for the /signin route .

array (size=1)
'params' => 
    array (size=1)
    'values' => 
        array (size=2)
        'controller' => string '\Infraweb\LoginUI' (length=17)
        'action' => string 'read' (length=4)

Full code tried below. As I mentioned before I don't know your route handling logic. So it is up to you to write things properly.

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Aura\Router\RouterContainer;

$routerContainer = new RouterContainer();

$map = $routerContainer->getMap();

$request = Zend\Diactoros\ServerRequestFactory::fromGlobals(
    $_SERVER,
    $_GET,
    $_POST,
    $_COOKIE,
    $_FILES
);

$map->get('application.signin.read', '/signin', [
    'params' => [
        'values' => [
            'controller' => '\Infraweb\LoginUI',
            'action' => 'read',
        ]
    ]
]);

$map->post('login.read', '/services/authentication/login', [
    'params' => [
        'values' => [
            'controller' => '\Infraweb\Toolkit\Services\Authentication',
            'action' => 'login',
        ]
    ]
])->accepts([
    'application/json',
]);


$matcher = $routerContainer->getMatcher();

// .. and try to match the request to a route.
$route = $matcher->match($request);
if (! $route) {
    echo "No route found for the request.";
    exit;
}

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($route->handler);
exit;

For the record, this is the composer.json

{ "require": { "aura/router": "^3.1", "zendframework/zend-diactoros": "^2.1" } }

and running via

php -S localhost:8000 index.php

and browsing http://localhost:8000/signin