Route parameter to model binding

[notramo]

Laravel route model binding is very useful in reducing boilerplate.
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/routing#route-model-binding

How it would work in Lucky?
When a route parameter contains an _id suffix, automatically define a method, without the _id suffix that retrieves and memoize the given instance of a model. E.g. if the route param is employee_id, Lucky woud define the employee method that retrieves an Employee with the given id, and return 404 if not found. It could also check the relationships for nested resources.

class Employee::Show < ApiAction
  get "/employees/:employee_id" do
    puts employee.class # => Employee
  end
end

[jwoertink]

This wouldn't really be possible in Lucky because you don't use the Model for doing queries. Since we use a separate object, there wouldn't be a way to tell which one you wanted without other boilerplate.

class Employees::Show < ApiAction
  get "/employees/:employee_id" do
    # We can't just assume you would use EmployeeQuery here without side affects
    employee = UserQuery.new.employee_id(1234).first
   json(EmployeeSerializer.new(employee))
  end
end

Though, maybe this could be a good case for a separate shard? Then in that case there's at least an understanding of how things are done... Might be worth looking in to.

[matthewmcgarvey]

Definitely a separate shard. We just untied Lucky from Avram. I'd not support adding it back.