Dynamic routes in Phoenix Framework

Question

The user accesses the following route: www.example.com/api/users/x, where x is variable.

How to get x and create routes with dynamic responses?

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Answer 1

In your router.ex you need to write something like following -

get "/api/users/:x", SomeController, :actionName

Now in your controller, you need to use patten matching to get the value of x from _params, ie:

def actionName(conn,  %{"x" => x}) do
    # now x is available here
end

For more details, http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/controllers