new-api

name	new-api
description	Scaffold a new merjs API route. Use when the user wants to create a new API endpoint.
argument-hint	[route-name]
disable-model-invocation	true

Create a new merjs API route

Scaffold a new API route at api/$ARGUMENTS.zig.

Steps

1. Create api/$ARGUMENTS.zig with this template:

const mer = @import("mer");

const Response = struct {
    // Define your response fields here
    message: []const u8,
};

pub fn render(req: mer.Request) mer.Response {
    return mer.typedJson(req.allocator, Response{
        .message = "hello",
    });
}

2. Adapt the Response struct fields based on what the user described
3. Run zig build codegen to regenerate routes
4. Confirm the route appears at /api/$ARGUMENTS

Conventions

• API routes live in api/ and map to /api/...
• Use mer.typedJson(allocator, value) to return typed JSON responses
• Use mer.json(string) for raw JSON strings
• Access request body via req.body, method via req.method
• Access query string via req.query_string
• Access cookies via req.cookie("name")
• For validation, use dhi: const dhi = @import("dhi_validator");
• API routes do NOT need pub const meta