Is there a way to use generic ids in express-resource?

Question

Is there a way to change the default "id" in express-resource from *.<name> to *.id ?

Example app.js:

...
app.resource('projects', require('./resoureces/project')
...

How it is now :

exports.show = function(req, res){
    console.log("got id", req.params.project)
})

What I want:

exports.show = function(req, res){
    console.log("got id", req.params.id)
})

I want this is because I don't want the project.js file to have to know about what I wrote in the app.js file to know what the ID is.

And I know this probably will bring problems when i have multiple ids because of nesting, but it would be nice to have at the top level at least. Or a generic way to access multiple ids, for instance id, id2 id3... idX and so on.

Answer 1

After taking a look at the express-resource source I found an option not documented to define your own id per resource. If you take a look at the tests in test/resource.test.js you'll find a test explaining how this option is used:

var app = express();

app.resource('users', {
  id: 'uid',
  ...
});