Improve API for nested <Get>s

[contiamo]

Improve API for nested s

from restful-react.

[micha-f]

Closing this after discussion with @TejasQ. You can always specify a different base in a Get and be completely independent from nesting.

[TejasQ]

Typically, components that nest also map to nested resources, hence the current design. I could also make the docs a little bit clearer about that API.

I think if we decide to implement your feature request, it'll have to be an add instead of a modify, which will be backwards compatible. So specced out, path could be a string, in which case it nests, or a function in which case it works the way you require. I'm still fairly unclear about the use case/need it'll be meeting.

From your second considered alternative, the <Path /> component, the only way its children would have access to the path from the Path component in that case is via function children. Your sample would actually look like

<Path path="/author/123">
{(path) => <>
  <Get path={`${path}/bio`}>
    {(data => <div>{data}</div>}
  </Get>
  <Get path={`${path}/books`}>
    {(data => <div>{data}</div>}
  </Get>
</>}
</Path>

I'm not sure that is easy to read. Seems to me like your preferred solution would be the way to go on this.

I'm curious: is there a particular use case you have in mind that the current API is not meeting?