Cakephp RESTful routing with Plugin - cakephp

Question

Using Cake 2.x I am trying to route RESTful traffic to my Users controller to my UserManagement plugin.
My routes are as follows:
// re-redirect root traffic to login
Router::connect('/', array('plugin'=>'UserManagement','controller' => 'Users', 'action' => 'login'));
CakePlugin::routes();
Router::mapResources(['users']);
Router::parseExtensions();
I also tried:
Router::mapResources(['UserManagement']);
When I call the resful url I get the following error:
users/1.json
{
"code": 404,
"name": "Action UsersController::51() could not be found.",
"message": "Action UsersController::51() could not be found.",
"url": "\/users\/51.json"
}
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Following CakePHPs convention over configuration approach, you specify plugins like you do anywhere else, using the plugin syntax, ie prepend the plugin name and separate it with a dot from the controller name
Router::mapResources('UserManagement.Users');
This will of course also require you to use the plugin name in the request URL, ie
/user_management/users/51.json
instead of only
/users/51.json
If you'd wanted to use the latter, but still connect to the plugin, then you could try the prefix option trick, that is, supply the default value of /, which stops the router from using the plugin name as the prefix (not to be confused with actual prefix routing).
Router::mapResources('UserManagement.Users', array(
'prefix' => '/'
));
See also
Cookbook > Plugins > Using a Plugin
Cookbook > Appendencies > Glossary > Plugin Syntax