is it possible to make an api path prefix optional?

[tansaku]

in the process of splitting up an API into public and private components, we want to add a public prefix to the API path, but we'd like it to be optional while we are in the process of changing over. Is that possible with the grape prefix keyword? e.g.

prefix :public, optional: true

[dblock]

I don't think you can make a prefix optional, but have you tried mounting the same API into two locations?

namespace :public do
  mount MyAPI
end
mount MyAPI

[tansaku]

That sounds like a great idea - it certainly leaves the original paths intact. However I'm not seeing the same endpoints available with a public/ prefix ... maybe something else in our app ...

I've managed to get it working with:

mount MyAPI => '/public/myapi'
mount MyAPI => '/myapi'

not sure why the namespace didn't seem to work for us - maybe because we're using these named paths ...?

[dblock]

I'll close this since that's definitely a solution, but if you have time maybe write a spec and reopen if my suggestion doesn't work, that would be a bug.