Upgrading a simple drupal 7 module to drupal 8?

Question

I am new to drupal and currently using version 8. I am trying to convert cricket feed widget module in drupal 7 to drupal 8 based on Community instructions.. But I am unable to understand the routing.yml files. I don't understand the parameters used in the routing.yml file to connect with the controllers. I checked out some of their examples..

I don't understand

what they mean by sub_name and Path: Path to the page on site.How do I know that? Is it that much difficult to convert a simple drupal 7 module to drupal 8?

Answer 1

I've spent the past few months doing a lot of D7 -> D8 upgrades. I haven't used sub_name (or even seen it), so I cannot comment on that, but as for the path, it's the same path you declared as the array key in your hook_menu definition - however note that with D8 you need to include the preceeding forward slash.

So if your D7 hook_menu() definition for a path was:

$menu['path/to/something']

In D8 your path in the routing file would be:

path: /path/to/something