Naming routes

[andre-dasilva]

Hi there, quick question. In actix you can set names for your routes

e.q

.service(
    web::resource("/about")
        .route(web::get().to(about))
        .name("about"),
)

that you can retrieve on the request with:

request.url_for_static(route_name)

I know such a feature also exists in like django (python).

The reason for it, is that i would like to give my routes a name and not hardcode the url everywhere.
Is there something similar in axum?

[jplatte]

There is nothing similar in axum, but axum-extra provides the TypedPath trait and derive macro which also derives a Display implementation for the same use case.

[davidpdrsn]

No axum doesn’t have such a feature. So you have to handle that yourself.

You can also use https://docs.rs/axum-extra/0.7.7/axum_extra/routing/trait.TypedPath.html from axum-extra

[andre-dasilva]

thanks. i will take a look at TypedPath.
is there any plans to add such a feature or does TypedPath solve it?

[davidpdrsn]

There are no plans to add something like this to axum itself.

[andre-dasilva]

thanks everyone for the replies. i will take a look at TypedPath