Routing

Concept

./api/**/config/routes.json files define all available endpoints for the clients.

By default, Strapi generates endpoints for all your Content Types. More information is in the Content API documentation.

How to create a route?

You have to edit the routes.json file in one of your APIs folders (./api/**/config/routes.json) and manually add a new route object into the routes array.

Path — ./api/**/config/routes.json.

{
  "routes": [
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/restaurants",
      "handler": "Restaurant.find",
      "config": {
        "policies": []
      }
    },
    {
      "method": ["POST", "PUT"],
      "path": "/restaurants/:id",
      "handler": "Restaurant.createOrUpdate",
      "config": {
        "policies": []
      }
    },
    {
      "method": "POST",
      "path": "/restaurants/:id/reservation",
      "handler": "Restaurant.reservation",
      "config": {
        "policies": ["isAuthenticated", "hasCreditCard"]
      }
    }
  ]
}

• method (string): Method or array of methods to hit the route (e.g. GET, POST, PUT, HEAD, DELETE, PATCH).
• path (string): URL starting with / (e.g. /restaurants).
• handler (string): Action to execute when the route is hit following this syntax <Controller>.<action>.
• config
  • policies (array): Array of policy names or paths (see more)

Dynamic parameters

The router used by Strapi allows you to create dynamic routes where you can use parameters and simple regular expressions. These parameters will be exposed in the ctx.params object. For more details, please refer to the PathToRegex documentation.

{
  "routes": [
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/restaurants/:category/:id",
      "handler": "Restaurant.findOneByCategory",
      "config": {
        "policies": []
      }
    },
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/restaurants/:region(\\d{2}|\\d{3})/:id", // Only match when the first parameter contains 2 or 3 digits.
      "handler": "Restaurant.findOneByRegion",
      "config": {
        "policies": []
      }
    }
  ]
}

Example

Route definition with URL params

{
  "routes": [
    {
      "method": "GET",
      "path": "/restaurants/:id",
      "handler": "Restaurant.findOne",
      "config": {
        "policies": []
      }
    }
  ]
}

Get the URL param in the controller

module.exports = {
  findOne: async ctx => {
    // const id = ctx.params.id;
    const { id } = ctx.params;
    return id;
  },
};