Hello guys,

I wonder how do you pass URLs to your API to JavaScript? I use Ajax with jQuery and what I always do is passing appropriate URLs to my view, like this:

return View::make('page', array(
	'api' => array(
		'list' => URL::action('ApiController@listCars'),
		'save' => URL::action('ApiController@save'),
		// etc.
	)
));

As you can see, I'm a huge fan of obtaining URLs by controller's methods. Then I put this to my view:

<script>
var API = {{ json_encode($api) }};
</script>

The problem is, sometimes I want to use REST-ful controller for my API. This way, using methods' names doesn't make much sence, because it a) always reflect URL's chunk, b) contains the method (get / post), which I'd like to be independent of. What I did in the past, was adding fake method, called for example postPlaceholder and referenced to it, replacing placeholder string with something like {uri}, resulting in something like:

<script>
var API = {
	mask: "http://mypage.com/api/{placeholder}"
};
</script>

Then, I dynamically replaced this chunk in JavaScript, like this:

API.getURL = function (uri) {
	return this.mask.replace("{placeholder}", uri);
};

Is there better way to obtain RESTful controller's URL "mask"?

I hope I'm clear enough. What I care of, is having flexible way to respect routes configuration to a RESTful controller on my client side.

P.S. I tried to edit my topic, but was forced to add it again. Something's wrong with editing on this forum :(