Allow redirect() method to convert routes into SES links

[charlesr1971]

Hi Guys

I was talking to Sean Corfield, a few months ago about adding a backward compatible enhancement to the redirect() method:

https://cfml.slack.com/archives/C06TA3B3L/p1709743825550009

Here is the gist of my idea:

I have created a redirect:

variables.fw.redirect(action='question.form',append="questionid");

Which displays:

https://www.foo.com/question/form/questionid/31

But I also have a route:

generateSES = true,
SESOmitIndex = true,
routes = [
    {"$*/question/edit/questionid/([0-9]+)/?$" = "/question/form/questionid/\1"},

Surely, the redirect() & buildURL() methods, should add the route conversion as well?

So, I would expect the following to be displayed in the address bar:

https://www.foo.com/question/edit/questionid/31

Have I uncovered a bug, or maybe these methods do not analyze the routes, when converting links into SES links.

And Sean replied:

Routing is unidirectional: it's applied inbound on requests, not outbound on responses (so redirect() and buildURL() do not consider route mappings). It's an interesting potential enhancement -- but no one's maintaining FW/1 these days so it is very unlikely to get added, unless you decide to implement it and submit a PR.

New signature:

This is what I reckon the new signature for the redirect() method could be:

public void function redirect( 
    string action,
    string preserve = “none”,
    string append = “none”,
    string path = see below,
    any queryString = ‘’,
    string statusCode = ‘302’,
    string header = ‘’,
    boolean applyRoute = false
)

So the new param would be applyRoute

I would be happy to add this change, if you would like:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-robertson-48313812

[matthewjones]

when i want to do something similar, i utilize buildCustomUrl() or redirectCustomUrl()