Hi,

I've come across a small hurdle with ERRest when dealing with CORS and HTTP 
OPTIONS calls.


Background:

When using the addDefaultRoutes([some entity]) method in your 
ERXRouteRequestHandler, one of the routes added is for the root entity when the 
HTTP verb OPTIONS is called, usually by a browser or other client when cross 
domain calls are employed.

So when, say, a GET is called for the index/search of an entity:

GET :: [rh key]/[Entity Name].json

the user agent or client might make an OPTIONS call first. This works fine -- 
when the correct headers are set of course, which is done in the 
ERXRouteController class (unless you override it yourself).


Hurdle:

Sometimes though, one of my client apps may want to make an entity "show" 
request straight up, no "root level" index or search:

GET :: [rh key]/[Entity Name]/[unique identifier].json?[params]

and the user agent quite rightly requests an OPTION call before this.

If you're using the addDefaultRoutes(..) convenience for that entity, or the 
standard examples, that OPTIONS call will fail /return a 405, because the "non 
root" route hasn't an Options path assigned.



One fix is to add a separate route when setting up your REST routes:

routeRequestHandler.addRoute(new ERXRoute(Foo.ENTITY_NAME, "Foo/{foo:Foo}", 
ERXRoute.Method.Options, FooController.class, "options");


Has anyone come across this before, and is there a better way of dealing with 
this case? Am I missing something in the way the "non-root" routes are created 
with respect to cross domain/CORS calls and OPTIONS?



Thanks,

-- 
Matt
http://logicsquad.net/
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