How to singularize route path part using FOSRestBundle - rest

Question

I have this controller (a snippet here)
/**
* Class UserController
* #package Belka\AuthBundle\Controller
*/
class UserController extends FOSRestController implements ClassResourceInterface
{
/**
* #View()
*
* #Route(requirements={"user"="\w+"})
* #ParamConverter("user", converter="fos_rest.request_body")
*/
public function postGlobaltokenAction(User $user)
{
...
}
that automatically generates the route:
post_user_globaltoken POST ANY ANY /api/users/{user}/globaltokens.{_format}
which is OK, except for the fact I would like "globaltoken" singularized. Is that possible? I cannot find any annotation to tweak this. Should I hardcode the route in my route.yml?

Answer 1

I've found two ways:
Using a personal Inflector
as Symfony's documentation suggests, you can register a personal Inflector which returns "globaltoken" always as singular, whereas all the other resources will be pluralized:
use Doctrine\Common\Util\Inflector;
use FOS\RestBundle\Util\Inflector\DoctrineInflector;
use FOS\RestBundle\Util\Inflector\InflectorInterface;
/**
* Inflector class
*
*/
class NoopInflector extends DoctrineInflector implements InflectorInterface
{
public function pluralize($word)
{
if($word == "globaltoken")
return $word;
return parent::pluralize($word);
}
}
services.yml:
services:
belka.auth_bundle.util.inflector:
class: Belka\AuthBundle\Util\NoopInflector
but I found this way a bit dirty, as I could need the plural form in the future.
Overriding the FOSRestBundle auto-generated routes
It's that simple! Just add the #Route annotation on the right methos and you're done!
/**
* #View()
*
* #Route("/users/{user}/globaltoken", defaults={"_format" = "json"}, requirements={"user"="\w+"})
*
* #ParamConverter("user", converter="fos_rest.request_body")
*/
public function postAction(User $user)
{
}
Now if I call php app/console debug:route I get what I want:
post_user_globaltoken POST ANY ANY /api/users/{user}/globaltoken.{_format}