[go_router] ShellRoute should have a redirect method similar to GoRoute

[ahmednfwela]

It is a common use case that a developer would want to guard an entire area in the app wrapped with ShellRoute
e.g. dashboard area

ShellRoute(
  redirect: (context, state) {
    //guard for authenticated users
  },
  builder: (context, state, child) => DashboardShellView(child: child),
  routes: [
    //sub routes
    GoRoute(path: '/orders'),
    GoRoute(path: '/dashboard'),
    GoRoute(path: '/short_route'),
  ],
),

there are 2 workarounds for this:

1. repeat the redirect logic for each sub route of a shell route
2. Group all guarded routes to be put under a single GoRoute
   e.g.:

ShellRoute(
  builder: (context, state, child) => DashboardShellView(child: child),
  routes: [
    //sub routes
    GoRoute(
      path:'/dashboard',
      redirect: (context, state) {
        //guard for authenticated users
      },
      routes: [
        GoRoute(path: 'orders'),
        GoRoute(path: 'short_route'),
      ],
    ),
  ],
),

however this has the downside of /short_route getting changed to /dashboard/short_route, and /orders getting changed to /dashboard/orders which might not be desirable

[huycozy]

Hi @ahmednfwela, I label this issue as a proposal for further insights from the team. Current package version: go_router: ^5.1.2.

[aveit]

Hello guys!

Do we have an update on this one?

[Thrajnor]

Hi! Since this issue is regarded as unimportant, do you guys have any good solution to aforementioned problem? For now i'm doing guards for every route separately, but now i have case where i want to run something whenever user enters one of the Shelled routes, adding it to every guarded route seems redundant

[danielmahon]

@Thrajnor I have previously just subclassed GoRouteData and implemented an auth redirect there, and then any route-specific redirects in the regular route. Just make sure to call super.redirect(context, state) where you need. I was hoping to do the same with the new Typed Shell Routes so I could eventually drop that.

class HomeRoute extends PrivateRouteData {...
class LoginRoute extends PublicRouteData {...