Question

I’ve been using Symfony for a long time but I’m new to Symfony2. After using the CRUD generator to generate scaffolding for a module called MediaArea, I edited my routing to include this rule:

_welcome:
    pattern:  /
    defaults: { _controller: VNNPressboxBundle:MediaArea:new }

When I visited that page in the browser, I got this error:

An exception has been thrown during the rendering of a template
(“Route “mediaarea_create” does not exist.”)

When I create the route, naturally, the error goes away. Here’s the route:

mediaarea_create:
    pattern:  /foo
    defaults: { _controller: VNNPressboxBundle:MediaArea:create }

So I could manually create all the routes I need to – mediaarea_create, mediaarea_index, etc. – but that would be dumb. Is there a way to tell Symfony that I have all these mediaarea routes that I need to work?

Answer 1

EDIT: ok, may not answer the question, it’s just a long comment…

Why not using an abstract base controller with annotations instead?

abstract class AbstractCrudController extends Controller
{

    /**
     * @Route("/show/{slug}")
     * @Method("GET")
     * @Template
     */
    public function showAction($slug) { /* Do stuff */ }
}

class MediaController extends AbstractCrudController { }
class UserController  extends AbstractCrudController { }

If your subclasses need a different behavior you can always override showAction() or add any action you want. Then you just need to import MediaController and UserController in your routing.yml (just one import for each controller):

somename1:
    resource: "@AcmeHelloBundle/Controller/MediaController.php"
    type: annotation
    prefix: /media

somename2:
    resource: "@AcmeHelloBundle/Controller/UserController.php"
    type: annotation
    prefix: /user

Your routes then becomes automatically acme_hello_media_show and acme_hello_user_show. Debug with:

php app/console router:debug