CakePHP REST Basic Mapping Not Working As Expected

Question

Followed the Cake Book example almost exactly.

Router::mapResources('incidentReports');
Router::parseExtensions('json');

Both before

require CAKE . 'Config' . DS . 'routes.php';

My controller called IncidentReportsController

class IncidentReportsController extends AppController {

Which contains functions

index()
view($id)
add()
edit($id)
delete($id)

Going to the URL

www.myurl.com/incidentReports.json

Sends the request to the index() function as expected.

Going to the URL

www.myurl.com/incidentReports/260.json

Should map to the view() function but trys to map to a 260() function which doesn't exist.

www.myurl.com/incidentReports/view/260.json

Does map to the view() function and works properly. However, my understanding is the "view" in the URL shouldn't be necessary.

Answer 1

Had the same issue. In my case I was able to fix it by changing the controller name in the URL.

Didn't work: http://www.example.com/entityName.json
Works fine: http://www.example.com/entity_name.json