Implement a GetURI to get the full uri of a (named) route

context/context.go

@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ type (
 		// SetHeader sets the response headers first parameter is the key, second is the value
 		SetHeader(string, string)
 		Redirect(string, ...int)
+		RedirectTo(routeName string, args ...interface{})
 		// Errors
 		NotFound()
 		Panic()

context_response.go

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ func (ctx *Context) SetHeader(k string, v string) {
 // Redirect redirect sends a redirect response the client
 // accepts 2 parameters string and an optional int
 // first parameter is the url to redirect
-// second parameter is the http status should send, default is 302 (Temporary redirect), you can set it to 301 (Permant redirect), if that's nessecery
+// second parameter is the http status should send, default is 307 (Temporary redirect), you can set it to 301 (Permant redirect), if that's nessecery
 func (ctx *Context) Redirect(urlToRedirect string, statusHeader ...int) {
-	httpStatus := 302 // temporary redirect
+	httpStatus := StatusTemporaryRedirect // temporary redirect
 	if statusHeader != nil && len(statusHeader) > 0 && statusHeader[0] > 0 {
 		httpStatus = statusHeader[0]
 	}
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ func (ctx *Context) Redirect(urlToRedirect string, statusHeader ...int) {
 	ctx.StopExecution()
 }
 
+// RedirectTo does the same thing as Redirect but instead of receiving a uri or path it receives a route name
+func (ctx *Context) RedirectTo(routeName string, args ...interface{}) {
+	s, ok := ctx.station.RouteByName(routeName).Parse(args...)
+	if ok {
+		ctx.Redirect(s, StatusTemporaryRedirect)
+	}
+
+}
+
 // Error handling
 
 // NotFound emits an error 404 to the client, using the custom http errors

iris.go

@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ func (s *Iris) PreListen(opt config.Server) *server.Server {
 func (s *Iris) PostListen() {
 	//if not error opening the server, then:
 
+	// prepare the route actions, these actions needs real server's access because that it's after server's listen
+	s.router.optimizeLookups()
+
 	//set the  rest (for Data, Text, JSON, JSONP, XML)
 	s.rest = rest.New(s.config.Render.Rest)
 	// set the templates

route.go

@@ -18,9 +18,18 @@ type (
 		Name(string) IRoute
 		GetMiddleware() Middleware
 		HasCors() bool
+		// internal methods
+		setTLS(bool)
+		setHost(string)
+		//
+
 		// used to check arguments with the route's named parameters and return the correct url
 		// second parameter is false when the action cannot be done
 		Parse(...interface{}) (string, bool)
+
+		// GetURI returns the GetDomain() + Parse(...optional named parameters if route is dynamic)
+		// instead of Parse it just returns an empty string if path parse is failed
+		GetURI(...interface{}) string
 	}
 
 	// RouteNameFunc is returned to from route handle
@@ -34,7 +43,10 @@ type (
 		// the name of the route, the default name is just the registed path.
 		name       string
 		middleware Middleware
-
+		// if true then https://
+		isTLS bool
+		// the real host
+		host string
 		// this is used to convert  /mypath/:aparam/:something to -> /mypath/%v/%v and /mypath/* -> mypath/%v
 		// we use %v to escape from the conversions between strings,booleans and integers.
 		// used inside custom html template func 'url'
@@ -149,6 +161,14 @@ func (r *Route) HasCors() bool {
 	return RouteConflicts(r, "httpmethod")
 }
 
+func (r *Route) setTLS(isSecure bool) {
+	r.isTLS = isSecure
+}
+
+func (r *Route) setHost(s string) {
+	r.host = s
+}
+
 func (r *Route) Parse(args ...interface{}) (string, bool) {
 	// check if arguments are not equal to the named parameters ( : = 1, * = all named parameters split to / ), if this happens then send not found err
 	///TODO: I'm thinking of making an option to disable these checks and just return a result, because they have cost when rendering an html/template, not too big compared to the render action but... we will see
@@ -190,6 +210,21 @@ func (r *Route) Parse(args ...interface{}) (string, bool) {
 	return fmt.Sprintf(r.formattedPath, args...), true
 }
 
+func (r *Route) GetURI(args ...interface{}) (uri string) {
+	scheme := "http://"
+	if r.isTLS {
+		scheme = "https://"
+	}
+
+	host := r.host
+	if parsedPath, ok := r.Parse(args...); ok {
+		uri = scheme + host + parsedPath
+	}
+
+	return
+
+}
+
 // RouteConflicts checks for route's middleware conflicts
 func RouteConflicts(r *Route, with string) bool {
 	for _, h := range r.middleware {

router.go

@@ -215,6 +215,23 @@ func (r *router) optimize() {
 	r.optimized = true
 }
 
+// optimizeLookups runs AFTER server's listen
+func (r *router) optimizeLookups() {
+	// set the isTLS on all routes and the correct  full domain (if it's local its empty but we don't want that) ( we don't use Domain because it's used to the tree)
+	listeningHost := r.station.server.Listener().Addr().String()
+	for idx, _ := range r.lookups {
+		theR := r.lookups[idx]
+		theR.setTLS(r.station.server.IsSecure())
+		if theR.GetDomain() == "" { // means local, no subdomain
+			theR.setHost(listeningHost)
+		} else {
+			// it's a subdomain route
+			theR.setHost(theR.GetDomain() + "." + listeningHost)
+		}
+
+	}
+}
+
 // notFound internal method, it justs takes the context from pool ( in order to have the custom errors available) and procedure a Not Found 404 error
 // this is being called when no route was found used on the ServeRequest.
 func (r *router) notFound(reqCtx *fasthttp.RequestCtx) {