CakePHP 2.0禁用路由问题

Question

I have my own routing rules in routes.php, defined for all the pages that should be accessible via URL, such as mywebsite/blog/ and mywebsite/blog/category/category-name, i.e. the structure of my whole website is covered by my custom routes.

Now, I have a lot of elements that make use of requestAction, such as

       $websiteabstract = $this -> requestAction(array(
        'controller' => 'assets',
        'action' => 'displayHomeAbstract'
       ));

This gives me an error Error: Controller could not be found, probably because I have not defined a route for /assets/displayHomeAbstract. But why do I have to define a custom route for that, when I explicitly state the name of the controller and the action? Shouldn't that bypass the routing altogether? Either I have not understand Routing at all. Or do I really have to define ALL the possible routes (even those that are only used by requestAction) in my routes.php? I mean, I don't want to allow users to directly access mywebsite/assets/displayHomeAbstract anyway, only via an Element.

Thank you

EDIT: Here is my routes.php http://pastebin.com/aAKBwNZJ Please have a look at line 128, this is exactly what I do not want since /assets/displayHomeAbstract is ONLY accessed via requestAction.

EDIT: And this is the element, that makes the request: http://pastebin.com/0tK5dYJk

Answer 1

Okay, after extensive discussion with the devs in IRC, I think I understand this well enough to explain to you:

You do have to define your custom routes for your requestAction in this case. requestAction is emulating a full request. It dispatches a request as if accessed using the string url every time, even when the url provided is an array. The book is referring to how when you have a custom route defined in addition to using the default routes (the last line of routes.php), you can use array urls to be agnostic of those routes. However, these array urls rely on the default routes.php in the /lib/ folder and are used to construct a url string. If you're going to have a custom routing pattern, you have to construct the url strings on your own.

Note: the comments below were from earlier versions of this answer.