[web-devel] Yesod: unifying breadcrumbs and routes

[Greg Weber]

While that might make for nice default breadcrumbs, it wouldn't be
expressive enough for all use cases. I think we should reserve indentation
to indicate route nesting:

/posts PostsR
    /#Int PostR
        /comments CommentR

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Eric Schug <schugschug at gmail.com> wrote:

> There seems to be much redundant information created within the Yesod
> structure.
> One place to define the routes
> Another place defines the route hierarchy for breadcrumbs with titles.
> A third place defines, but not integrated into Yesod, defines use menus
> (usually similar hierarchy and titles).
>
> Would it be possible to have all of this defined into one place, by
> extending the routes definition using white space
> hierarchy similar to hamlet definition.
> and optionally include Title name.
>
> -- Example config/routes
> /static StaticR Static getStatic
> /favicon.ico FaviconR GET
> /robots.txt RobotsR GET
> / RootR GET "Home"
>    /contact  ContactR GET  "Contact Us"
>    /services ServicesR GET  "Our Services"
>        /services/stuffwedo StuffWeDoR GET "Stuff We Do"
>
> The resource list would be expanded to include this hierarchy. Something
> like
> Resource String <
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.3.1.0/doc/html/Data-Char.html#t:String>
> [Piece <
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/web-routes-quasi/0.6.3/doc/html/Web-Routes-Quasi-Parse.html#t:Piece>]
> [String <
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.3.1.0/doc/html/Data-Char.html#t:String>]
>  String Maybe String
>
> From this a breadcrumb could be build from a maker (if desired).
>
> mkYesodData "Example" $(parseRoutesFile "config/routes")
> mkYesodBreadcrumbs "Example" resourcesExample -- creates breadcrumbsExample
>
>
> and a hierarchy useful for building Menus
>
> mkYesodHierarchy "Example" resourcesExample -- creates a nested table of
> (Route, Html) pairs
>
> The menu list could also be pulled from the data, with possible few
> options.
>
>
>
>
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