From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-06-28T07:23:29+09:00
Subject: Re: fallthrough routing in a web microframework

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've already asked on the Halcyon list, but if any other
> microframework can do this I'd like to know. Essentially I want a
> route to fail on a missing controller/action as well as on an
> unmatched pattern.

Oh, and as for the ever-recommended "what problem are you really
trying to solve" explanation, I have an app driven by a table like

{'users' => {
  'list' => ['tom', 'dick', 'harry'],
  'random' => 'tom'
}}

so that /users/list returns ['tom', 'dick', 'harry'], for instance.
But I also want to override some actions, that is, if my Users
controller defines a list method, I want to use that, if not I want to
return the response from the table.

And as to why I'm doing *that*, I want to mock a web service to test
apps that call out to it without touching them.

martin