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Express Contrib

The express-namespace module provides namespace capabilities to express.

Installation

npm:

$ npm install express-namespace

Usage

The example below may respond to any of the following requests:

GET /forum/12
GET /forum/12/view
GET /forum/12/edit
GET /forum/12/thread/5
DELETE /forum/12

To utilize this module simply require('express-namespace') and app.namespace() will automatically be available to you.

Usage is as follows, simply pass a callback function and route to the method, after each callback invocation is complete, the namespace is restored to it's previous state.

app.namespace('/forum/:id', function(){
  app.get('/(view)?', function(req, res){
    res.send('GET forum ' + req.params.id);
  });
  
  app.get('/edit', function(req, res){
    res.send('GET forum ' + req.params.id + ' edit page');
  });

  app.namespace('/thread', function(){
    app.get('/:tid', function(req, res){
      res.send('GET forum ' + req.params.id + ' thread ' + req.params.tid);
    });
  });

  app.del('/', function(req, res){
    res.send('DELETE forum ' + req.params.id);
  });
});

You can also access the current namespace via app.currentNamespace;

Running Tests

First make sure you have the submodules:

$ git submodule update --init

Then run the tests:

$ make test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 TJ Holowaychuk <[email protected]>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.