I'm not sure if I'm just missing something with SS routes but I can't seem to get any working using 3.1.7.

I have a page controller "AccountPage_Controller" that extends "Page_Controller".
All I want to do is have a couple routes on this page e.g. "http://localhost/website/account/address/deleteAddress/1".

I literally copied the same example from the docs with out any luck. See my code below and the results when executed.

class AccountPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
	
	private static $allowed_actions = array (
		'address'
	);
	
	private static $url_handlers = array(
		'address/$Action/$ID' => 'deleteAddress'
	);

        public function deleteAddress(){
		return true;
        }
}	

Results in (using debug_request):

Debug (line 250 of RequestHandler.php): Testing 'address/$Action/$ID' with 'address/deleteAddress/1' on AccountPage_Controller
Debug (line 258 of RequestHandler.php): Rule 'address/$Action/$ID' matched to action '$Action' on AccountPage_Controller. Latest request params: array ( 'Action' => 'deleteAddress', 'ID' => 1, )
Debug (line 250 of RequestHandler.php): Testing '$Action//$ID/$OtherID' with '' on ErrorPage_Controller
Debug (line 258 of RequestHandler.php): Rule '$Action//$ID/$OtherID' matched to action 'handleAction' on ErrorPage_Controller. Latest request params: array ( 'Action' => NULL, 'ID' => NULL, 'OtherID' => NULL, )
Debug (line 184 of RequestHandler.php): Action not set; using default action method name 'index'
Debug (line 157 of Controller.php): Request handler returned SS_HTTPResponse object to AccountPage_Controller controller;returning it without modification.

[User Warning] Couldn't set response type to 404 because of output on line 165 of /Users/USER/Sites/website/framework/dev/Debug.php
Sorry, it seems you were trying to access a page that doesn't exist.

And that's with a dev/build, dev/build?flush=all, dev/build?flush=1

Any ideas?

Hey man,
Is this a direct copy and paste?

If so - your code should be:

class AccountPage_Controller extends Page_Controller { 
    private static $allowed_actions = array( 
        'address' 
    ); 
    
    private static $url_handlers = array( 
        'address/$Action/$ID' => 'deleteAddress' 
    );

    public function deleteAddress(){
        return true; 
    }

}   

Other than that, I could be absolutely-wrong but I don't think you need to use $url_handlers anymore. Someone prove me wrong! Because then I can try using $url_handlers. I read a blog article on a different site stepping through on how to create and setup a SilverStripe Route. Never worked.

Wasn't a straight copy and paste but yeah what you posted is what I have and it doesn't work...

That's all i'm after just someone to explain how to do this correctly.

It's quite an important part of using SilverStripe as more than just a CMS e.g. Shopping cart, advanced management systems etc.

Any help is much appreciated ;)

Hi, mediabeastnz --

Whenever you add or edit configuration (private static variables or YAML configuration), you have to do a dev/build, either by going to /dev/build on the web site, or by doing "framework/sake dev/build" on the command line (cd to the docroot first). Then your route ought to be noticed.

Hi Fred C, definitely tried a dev build, flush, flush=1, flush=all...you name it. :/

Hi, I got it to work with this code, which follows the pattern from http://beta.doc.silverstripe.org/en/developer_guides/controllers/routing/#url-handlers :

<?php

class AccountPage extends Page {
	
}

class AccountPage_Controller extends Page_Controller {

	private static $allowed_actions = array(
		'delete_address'
	);
	private static $url_handlers = array(
		'address/$Action/$ID' => 'delete_address'
	);

	public function delete_address($r) {
		Debug::dump($r);
		return true;
	}

}

Using the example on the beta docs I did manage to get this to work.

Rather than having the url handlers in the controller I set them in the Yaml as per the docs and this seemed to work straight away.