I would like to help in adding the ability for routes to be named in the router and then reconstructed elsewhere in the application. One of the ways I was looking into doing this was to simply add named methods to the router.

router.NamedGET("show-user", "/users/:id", userShow)

The advantage to this would be to not change the return type of the router methods and lose chaining. The named routes could be added to the engine for access through the context.

func userShow(c *gin.Context) {
    url := c.Route("user-show").With(gin.Pair{"id": 44}).URL
    // or
    path := c.Route("user-show").With(gin.Pair{"id": 44}).Path
}

Does this seem in the scope of the framework? If so, what changes to the API would be welcomed to accomplish this?

Comment From: manucorporat

@rafroehlich2 what is the use case of this?

Comment From: rafroehlich2

@manucorporat The use case would be similar to the function of the Rails link helpers. When generating links in templates or JSON responses you can use the one provided to the router to keep them up to date. In a JSON server I built I use a similar method to handle HATEOAS.

Comment From: dre1080

@manucorporat :+1: would also like something like this for use in templates...

Comment From: ahmet

:+1:

Comment From: douglarek

+1

Comment From: EagleChen

πŸ‘

Comment From: Joey92

+1 i really need this to set the location header on REST API responses

Comment From: adred

This is very useful for auto-generation of links in templates. I don't know if there's a workaround for this already but right now I have to hard code the link to my assets.

In Iris framework, all you have to do is 

iris.Post("/users", UserHanlder).ChangeName("users")

or 

iris.HandleFunc("POST", "/users", UserHandler)("users")

In Django, you do 

url(r'^articles/([0-9]{4})/$', views.year_archive, name='news-year-archive'),

Just trying to prove that, certainly, there is a usecase for this.

Comment From: wangzitian0

+1, It will be easy to generate Restful Hypermedia API if here support this feature.

Comment From: jmp0xf

+1

Comment From: vchakoshy

+1

Comment From: Solution

Is there any chance to get this feature to gin? cc @appleboy @austinheap @javierprovecho @thinkerou

Comment From: pior

Every services I've been working on has needed this at some point. Definitely needed πŸ‘

Comment From: mehran-prs

+1

Comment From: pior

This issue has not received much attention since 2015. Is this a matter of developer bandwidth? Would a PR implementing this be accepted? (assuming it would meet the expected code quality)

Ping @manucorporat @appleboy @javierprovecho @thinkerou

Comment From: appleboy

@pior PR Welcome.

Comment From: pedro-rijo-deel

hey. what's the status of this feature request? is there any known workaround? or has everyone been solving it in it's own custom way? would be good to change a URL in routing and dont break a ton of templates with manual reverse route πŸ˜„