Controllers

Controllers are where the main routing and logic of your application starts. Controllers will rely on extending other controllers to get new features.

Controllers has a couple of ways to perform logical operations and has a couple different ways to handle data.

Decorators

Methods

There are actually alot more request types but these are just some of the more popular request. The full list is here.

• Get
• Post
• Put
• Use
• Checkout
• Copy
• Delete
• Head
• Lock
• Merge
• MkActivity
• MkCol
• Move
• MSearch
• Notify
• Options
• Patch
• Report
• Search
• Subscribe
• Trace
• Unlock
• unsubscribe

BaseController

The base controller is the controller you are going to inherit to get some of the cool features that can-i has in store.

// ./controllers/HelloController.ts

@MiddleWare(Body)
@Route("/hello")
export class HelloController extends BaseController{

    constructor(){
        //Nothing defined yet,
        //Setup
    }

    @Get("/world")
    async hello_world_method(){
        this.send("Hello World")
    }

    @Post("/can-i")
    async hello_can_i_post_method(){
        let body= this.req.body;
        this.send({
            status:"ok",body
        })
    }    
}

This is a basic controller with the following routes

    Get:    /hello/world
    Post:   /hello/can-i

When the constructor is called the controller doesn't have access to the req res and next properties. This will be made available when the method is reached.

import { Body } from './../middleware/index'; import { ExplorerService } from './../services/ExplorerService'; import { Route } from 'can-i/Route/index'; import {Get,Post} from "can-i/Route/Method"; import { BaseController } from 'can-i/Controller'; import {MiddleWare} from "can-i/Middleware"; import {Job} from "can-i/Work";