Zend Framework - Custom defined routes overridden when adding Zend_Rest_Route - php

Question

I'm creating an application that exposes a RESTful API in a module called api. For the other modules I created a little class that returns a Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite object with custom defined routes:
$router = new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite();
foreach ($this->_modules as $module) {
if ($module === 'api') continue;
foreach ($this->_getConfigFiles($module) as $filename) {
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini($filename, 'routes');
$router->addConfig($config, 'routes');
}
}
return $router;
For the default module I have the following route:
[routes]
routes.default_index_index.type = Zend_Controller_Router_Route
routes.default_index_index.route = /
routes.default_index_index.defaults.module = default
routes.default_index_index.defaults.controller = index
routes.default_index_index.defaults.action = index
Now, in my Bootstrap file file I have the following:
$router = Shark_Module_Loader::getInstance()->getRouter();
$frontController->setRouter($router);
$frontController->getRouter()->removeDefaultRoutes();
$apiRoute = new Zend_Rest_Route($frontController, array(), array('api'));
$router->addRoute('rest', $apiRoute);
If I skip adding the rest route everything works fine for the default module, of course. But when I add the RESTful route the routes defined in the router are overridden(?), so the current route in the index action of the index controller of the default module ($this->getFrontController()->getRouter()->getCurrentRoute();) is an instance of Zend_Rest_Route. Thus, when trying to access a custom route defined in on of the route config files, lets say:
...
routes.default_pages_view.type = Zend_Controller_Router_Route
routes.default_pages_view.route = /view/:page
routes.default_pages_view.defaults.module = default
routes.default_pages_view.defaults.controller = pages
routes.default_pages_view.defaults.action = view
...
I get a 404 error saying that the request action (get) is not present.
I already went through the docs and didn't see any hint that suggests this behavior.
Any help and guidance will be appreciated.

Answer 1

There is no way to do this out of the box. (Check out this question)
You need to extend the Zend_Controller_Router_Route class. I've done it like this:
class Mauro_Controller_Router_Route_Method extends Zend_Controller_Router_Route {
protected $_method;
public function __construct($route, $defaults = array(), $reqs = array(), Zend_Translate $translator = null, $locale = null) {
list($this->_method, $route) = explode(' ', $route, 2);
parent::__construct($route, $defaults, $reqs, $translator, $locale);
}
public function match($path, $partial = false) {
$requestMethod = $this->getRequest()->getMethod();
$requestMethod = $this->getRequest()->getParam('method')
? strtoupper($this->getRequest()->getParam('method'))
: $requestMethod;
return $requestMethod == strtoupper($this->_method)
? parent::match($path, $partial)
: false;
}
protected function getRequest() {
return Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRequest();
}
}
You can then use it like this:
$router->addRoute( new Mauro_Controller_Router_Route_Method( 'GET /view/:page', array( 'controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'view' ), array( 'page' => '/d+', ) ) );