Allowing nested URL's

[rjvandoesburg]

Hi there,

At the moment when creating new records or urls the values are always altered using Str::slug(). Usually in combination with the name field.

However, when working with collections I expect the urls to be nested as well e.g. the collection t-shirts has a child called well-fitted I would like the url to be t-shirts/well-fitted but at the moment this is transformed into t-shirts-well-fitted or when not manually editing the url well-fitted.

Obviously the input from the user should be slugged in a way to create correct urls, but I would like to be able to created nested urls based on requirements.

In my current project I have two options, ignore urls table all together and create something on my or or override the UrlGenerator (which I have now done) and somehow altering ManageUrlsRelatedRecords so my input isn't slugged. (I will probably introduce a composer patch, else I need to extend every resource)

I have searched GitHub and the docs but am unable to find any information/decisions from Lunar why urls can only be root level.

Before implementing anything the following things should be considered:

• What happens when a parent is updated?
  • I am used to creating a new url with either a redirect from the old to the new or creating a canonical
  • Should the child be updated at all?
• Who is responsible for slugging the value? At the moment the resource is responsible, but when creating a record any other way the input is not handled the same way

I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this issue.