Create REST_Controller abstract base class for all REST based resource

controllers.  Any controller that wants to act RESTful can extend this
class and implement get/post/put/delete.

Tweak default routes to disallow direct access to the REST controller
and direct access to any REST methods.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/config/routes.php b/core/config/routes.php
index 5c34acb7..9b958df1 100644
--- a/core/config/routes.php
+++ b/core/config/routes.php
@@ -17,5 +17,15 @@
  * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
  */
+
+// REST configuration
+// Any resource requests (eg: album/1 or comment/3) get dispatched to the REST
+// dispatcher.  Any direct calls to REST methods are also forced into the dispatcher
+// since the REST methods are internally expecting an ORM, not an id.
+$config['^rest'] = null;
+$config['^rest/.*'] = null;
 $config['^(\w+)/(\d+)$'] = '$1/dispatch/$2';
+$config['^(\w+)/(?:get|post|put|delete)/(\d+)$'] = '$1/dispatch/$2';
+
+// For now our default page is the scaffolding.
 $config['_default'] = 'welcome';