[Question] Naming the route

[bentcoder]

Hi,

Maybe I might have missed but couldn't see anything so just asking. Are we able to name the routes - similar to this? See example below for better explanation.

Thanks

// Set
r.Post("/users", createUser).SetName("create_user")

// Get in the controller
...(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
   name := chi.RouteName(r)
}

[bentcoder]

Is it possible to treat this as a "feature request" please?

[pkieltyka]

Thanks for the request, but chi's goals are to remain a minimal router -- however, you can already do this today:

You can pull it off with your own custom middleware and use r.With(SetName("create_user")).Post("/users", createUser) .. this would work out of the box now. https://github.com/go-chi/chi/blob/master/middleware/value.go#L9-L17 here is a simple middleware you could adapt.. but if you wanted to use middleware.Value directly for the above you could do ..

r.With(middleware.Value("routeName", "create_user")).Post("/users", createUser)

//..

then in your handler,
name, _ := r.Context().Value("routeName").(string)

to make the above shorter, you'd write your own helpers to set the value and get the value

feature delivered :)