libs/web: dispatcher: implement a "firstchild()" target which simply redirects to...

[project/luci.git] / libs / web / luasrc / dispatcher.lua

diff --git a/libs/web/luasrc/dispatcher.lua b/libs/web/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
index f277501..5f893da 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/web/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
+++ b/libs/web/luasrc/dispatcher.lua
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ function dispatch(request)
                local root = node()
                if not root or not root.target then
                        error404("No root node was registered, this usually happens if no module was installed.\n" ..
-                                "Install luci-admin-full and retry. " ..
+                                "Install luci-mod-admin-full and retry. " ..
                                 "If the module is already installed, try removing the /tmp/luci-indexcache file.")
                else
                        error404("No page is registered at '/" .. table.concat(request, "/") .. "'.\n" ..
@@ -638,6 +638,35 @@ end
 
 -- Subdispatchers --
 
+function _firstchild()
+   local path = { unpack(context.path) }
+   local name = table.concat(path, ".")
+   local node = context.treecache[name]
+
+   local lowest
+   if node and node.nodes and next(node.nodes) then
+         local k, v
+         for k, v in pairs(node.nodes) do
+                if not lowest or
+                       (v.order or 100) < (node.nodes[lowest].order or 100)
+                then
+                       lowest = k
+                end
+         end
+   end
+
+   assert(lowest ~= nil,
+                 "The requested node contains no childs, unable to redispatch")
+
+   path[#path+1] = lowest
+   dispatch(path)
+end
+
+--- Alias the first (lowest order) page automatically
+function firstchild()
+   return { type = "firstchild", target = _firstchild }
+end
+
 --- Create a redirect to another dispatching node.
 -- @param      ...             Virtual path destination
 function alias(...)