Backbone AppRouter

Extends Backbone.Router to find back a route pattern and construct an URL with arguments.

Methods

Based on the following router.

var myrouter = Backbone.Router.extend({
			routes: {
				'home'                         : 'home',
				'catalogue'                    : 'catalogue',
				'catalogue/:tags'              : 'catalogue',
				'catalogue/:productId/:rewrite': 'productSheet',
				'search/*'                     : 'search'
			},
			home: function(){
				console.log('ROUTER -> home'); 
			},
			catalogue: function(tag){
				if(!_.isUndefined(tag))
				{
					console.log('ROUTER -> catalogue -> tags -> '+ tag);
				}
				else
				{
					console.log('ROUTER -> catalogue');
				}
			},
			productSheet: function(productId)
			{
				console.log('ROUTER -> catalogue -> productId -> '+ productId);
			},
			search: function(query)
			{
				console.log('ROUTER -> search -> query -> '+ query);
			}
		});

app.router = new myrouter(); 

setRoute

Wrap reverse and createUri methods in a single call. If multiple possibilities, try to find the good route by comparing the count of arguments with given hash

var catalogueRoute = myrouter.setRoute('catalogue', ['awsome-tag']);
console.log("create URI: %s", catalogueRoute);
--> create URI: /catalogue/awsome-tag

var searchUrl = app.router.setRoute('search', ['a fulltext search exemple ?']);
console.log("create URI: %s", searchUrl);
--> create URI: /search/a%20fulltext%20search%20exemple%20%3F

reverse

return an array of matching routes based on method name

var productRoute = myrouter.reverse('productSheet');
console.log("get reverse route: %s", productRoute[0]);
--> get reverse route: catalogue/:productId/:rewrite

createUri

return an URL based on the route pattern and an array of arguments

var newProductUrl = app.router.createUri(productRoute[0], [321, 'anoter-product-name'])
console.log("create route: %s", newProductUrl);
--> create route: /catalogue/321/anoter-product-name

getArgs

return a list of arguments for a route pattern

myrouter.getArgs(productRoute);
--> ["productId", "rewrite"]

TO DO

enhance the RegExp to match the "file/*path" argument done...