Symfony routing with an API Web Service

Question

Hi,

I'm finishing the API of our web service. Now I'm thinking on how to make the route changes, so if we decide to make a new version we don't break the first API.

right now:

url: /api/:action
param: { module: api, action: :action }
requirements:
  sf_format: (?:xml|json)

what i've thought:

url: /api/v1/:module/:action
param: { module: api1, action: :action }
requirements:
  sf_format: (?:xml|json)

url: /api/v2/:module/:action
param: { module: api2, action: :action }
requirements:
  sf_format: (?:xml|json)

That's easy, but the perfect solution would be to have the following kind of route

# Automatically redirects to one module or another
url: /api/v:version/:module/:action
param: { module: api:version, action: :action }
requirements:
  sf_format: (?:xml|json)

any ideas on how to do it? what do you recommend us to do?

thanks!

Answer 1

How about just use the old routing rules and append .xml1/.xml2/.json1/.json2 to the end? That way you can reuse your current modules and only need to create a new view ("indexSuccess.xml1.php").

Or create a new routing class?