{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181/events","html_url":"https://github.com/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181","id":91821902,"number":181,"title":"Define custom properties on your routes","user":{"login":"robertpitt","id":567579,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/567579?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt","html_url":"https://github.com/robertpitt","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/robertpitt/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-06-29T14:30:08Z","updated_at":"2015-06-29T15:19:47Z","closed_at":"2015-06-29T15:19:47Z","body":"Hey guys,\r\n\r\nIt's looking like were all starting to switch to flow-router due to the problems arising in iron-router, but for myself and my team, there's still a few flexibility teething issues that id like to open to the forum.\r\n\r\nSo the issue we are trying to solve is dealing with roles and routes.\r\n\r\nWe have come up with an approach we all think is clean, here's an example router file.\r\n\r\n```js\r\nRouter.route(\"/admin\", {\r\n\r\n    /**\r\n     * Route name\r\n     */\r\n    name: 'admin',\r\n\r\n    /**\r\n     * Roles required for this route\r\n     */\r\n    roles: ['admin', 'staff', 'god'],\r\n\r\n    /**\r\n     * Action to render the view file.\r\n     */\r\n    action: function(){}\r\n});\r\n```\r\n\r\nAnd then we would have a separate single tracker auto-run to monitor route changes and check the permissions accordingly.\r\n\r\n```js\r\nTracker.autorun(function(){\r\n    Router.watchPathChange(); // depends\r\n\r\n    Router.current().route.roles === undefined; // HERE\r\n});\r\n```\r\n\r\nAs you can see the problem lies in not being able to access `roles` reference, why, well quite simply because your main route file cherry picks only the required properties and ignores everything else.\r\n\r\nWhat are the chances of changing this around to validate required properties, but use `_.extend(this, options)` to mixin everything.\r\n\r\nIt would be pretty helpful.\r\n\r\nRegards."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/comments/116728460","html_url":"https://github.com/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181#issuecomment-116728460","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteorhacks/flow-router/issues/181","id":116728460,"user":{"login":"arunoda","id":50838,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50838?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda","html_url":"https://github.com/arunoda","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arunoda/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-29T15:19:47Z","updated_at":"2015-06-29T15:19:47Z","body":"I see what you looking here. But, I am not planning to add this kind API to flow-router soon. At least for 2.x.\r\nMay be you can create a map with route names to roles externally.\r\nYou can define it inside the actions. So, it'll be looks like integrated into the route."}}