Getting resources by different columns in Recess

Question

I'm fairly new to RESTful web services and even more new to the Recess PHP framework. It's easy to retrieve resources by ID. For example, if I want to retrieve a User with ID 7, I would make a request to:

http://localhost/myApp/user/7

What I'm wondering is this: is there an easy way to retrieve a resource by a different column, for example, a user's username?

http://localhost/myApp/user/username/tyler

This seems like it would be something pretty important for a RESTful framework to have, so I'm guessing there's a way to do this or a way to implement it easily.

Answer 1

I figured out how to do this using the framework's parametric routing system. I created a function that can retrieve a User resource by a specified property value:

/** !Route GET, $property/$value */
function getUser($property, $value) {   
    $this->user = Make::a('User')->equal($property, $value)->first();  
}