Best way to get the current resource name

[seguidor777]

Hello,

I am working on a feature that uses policies to authorize requests basing on a user role, an action and a resource.

I have no problem to get the first two, but I am facing issues with getting the resource name, since I only have the full path. Is there any efficient way to get that with any function similar to controller_name from Rails?

[seguidor777]

I could extract the resource name from the name of the handler, for example:
handlerName: = c.Data()["current_route"].(buffalo.RouteInfo).HandlerName

Lets suppose that handlerName is something like "github.com/company/project/actions.UsersResource.Edit"
And with some regexp stuff I capture the UsersResource string, but this does not convince me at all

[alexisvisco]

With the RouteInfo you have the Handler, maybe using reflect you could get the resource name ?

(I am doing a pr with the resource name in the RouteInfo and I rely on the name of the handler with reflect as they do to have the HandlerName (with suffix List, Delete, Show ...)

[seguidor777]

Hello! Thanks for replying. I agree with the proposal, it would be great to have the resource and the action names on separate fields, for example ResourceName and ActionName

[paganotoni]

@seguidor777 the RouteInfo has both: ResourceName and Handler name.

[paganotoni]

Closing this one as it seems to be solved. please reopen if still relevant.