Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Adding more routes in Vapor

This section will show you how to add more routes in Vapor:

1. Open the routes.swift file from Project Navigator on Xcode's left panel and add the following code to the line right before the closing brace at the bottom:

. . .router.get("greet", String.parameter) { req -> String in // [1]    let guest = try req.parameters.next(String.self) // [2]    return "Hi \(guest), greetings! Thanks for visiting us." // [3]}. . .

2. The preceding code does three things:
   1. Add a new route using greet as the first parameter from the path components and specifying the second parameter to be a string.
   2. Extract the guest string from the request's next item in its parameters list.
   3. Interpolate the guest string in the string returning to the ...