horse-routing

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Guidelines for setting up endpoints, defining path parameters, route wildcards, and structuring HTTP controllers.

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Horse Routing

Defining HTTP Endpoints

Horse supports registering endpoints for all standard HTTP verbs using static or instance methods:

THorse.Get('/products', GetProductsHandler);
THorse.Post('/products', CreateProductHandler);
THorse.Put('/products', UpdateProductHandler);
THorse.Delete('/products', DeleteProductHandler);
THorse.Patch('/products', PatchProductHandler);

Route Parameters

Path parameters are defined using the colon syntax (:param):

Correct: THorse.Get('/users/:id', GetUserHandler);
Incorrect: THorse.Get('/users/{id}', GetUserHandler);

Inside the handler, you access the parameter via Req.Params.Items['id'] (or Req.Params['id']).

Wildcards

Use the wildcard asterisk (*) to match any subpath:

// Matches /public/css/site.css, /public/images/logo.png, etc.
THorse.Get('/public/*', ServeStaticFilesHandler);

Route Grouping & Prefixes (THorse.Group)

You can group related routes under a common path prefix using THorse.Group. This is highly useful for API versioning (e.g., /v1) and isolating group-level middlewares:

Prefixing Routes:

THorse.Group.Prefix('/v1')
  .Get('/products', GetProductsHandler)
  .Get('/customers', GetCustomersHandler);

Group-level Middlewares (Restricted Middlewares): Instead of registering a middleware globally via THorse.Use, you can register it specifically for a group using .Use(). The middleware will only run for endpoints defined inside that group:
```
THorse.Group.Prefix('/admin')
  .Use(AuthMiddleware) // Only runs for routes under /admin
  .Get('/dashboard', GetDashboardHandler)
  .Get('/settings', GetSettingsHandler);
```

Route-level Middlewares (Local)

You can pass an array of route-specific middlewares (array of THorseCallback) to apply checks only to a single endpoint. These run after global and group-level middlewares:

Static routing:

THorse.Get('/admin/dashboard', [AuthMiddleware, LoggerMiddleware], GetDashboardHandler);

Fluent routing:

THorse.Route('/reports')
  .Get([AuthMiddleware, LoggerMiddleware], GetReportsHandler)
  .Post([AuthMiddleware], CreateReportHandler);

Grouping with Controllers

To keep routes organized, group them logically within static class methods or dedicated units:

type
  TUserController = class
  public
    class procedure RegisterRoutes;
    class procedure ListUsers(Req: THorseRequest; Res: THorseResponse; Next: TProc);
  end;

class procedure TUserController.RegisterRoutes;
begin
  THorse.Get('/users', ListUsers);
end;