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Bad links with engine mounted as root

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2/5
Estimated time
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45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rails, ruby
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start in lib/jsonapi/link_builder.rb at resource_url, then inspect how engine_mount_point is computed for an engine mounted at '/'. Reproduce the reported root-mounted case and verify that the generated self link has one leading slash rather than '//v1/users/...'; the existing link-building behavior should remain correct for non-root mounts.

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Description

As described on lib/jsonapi/link_builder.rb#L139,

def resource_url(source)
    "#{ base_url }#{ engine_mount_point }#{ resource_path(source) }"
end

But in this case:

constraints subdomain: 'api' do
    mount MyEngine::Engine, at: '/' if defined?(MyEngine::Engine)
  end

This creates a double / due to root value of engine_mount_point.

I guess a little update of:

@engine_mount_point = @engine ? @engine.routes.find_script_name({}) : ""

should be enough.

Current result:

{
    "data": {
        "id": "ed526d56-cc7e-41f4-8e99-fccf73fb7500",
        "type": "users",
        "links": {
            "self": "//v1/users/ed526d56-cc7e-41f4-8e99-fccf73fb7500"
        },
        "attributes": {
            "first_name": null,
            "last_name": null,
            "email": "[email protected]"
        }
    }
}

//v1/users/ed526d56-cc7e-41f4-8e99-fccf73fb7500 should be /v1/users/ed526d56-cc7e-41f4-8e99-fccf73fb7500

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