How to rewrite a router url?

Question

I search the entire web to found solutions for rewriting an url from a custom action but nothing works.

I tried to put into global this :

<rewrite>
 <artist_list_index>
 <from><![CDATA[#artist/list/index#]]></from>
 <to><![CDATA[artists]]></to>
 <complete>1</complete>
 </artist_list_index>
 </rewrite>

It gives me a 404 when i try to reach artist/list/index or artists route.

I tried to put this in gobal :

<routers>
 <artist>
 <rewrite>
 <list>
 <to>artists</to>
 </list>
 </rewrite>
 </artist>
 </routers>

I can real artist/list/index but artists gives me a 404. I think i understand why by checking the _rewrite function. It's because this allow to override a function from a controller by forwaring a route to another.

Finally i tried to create my own router and then i get this error "Front controller reached 100 router match iterations ". So in global i added this :

<events>
 <controller_front_init_before>
 <observers>
 <artist_rewrite>
 <class>Confidential_Artist_Controller_Router</class>
 <method>insertControllerRouter</method>
 </artist_rewrite>
 </observers>
 </controller_front_init_before>
 </events>

Confidential_Artist_Controller_Router functions are :

/**
 * Initialize Controller Router
 *
 * @param Varien_Event_Observer $observer
 */
 public function insertControllerRouter($observer)
 {
 /* @var $front Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front */
 $front = $observer->getEvent()->getFront();
 $front->addRouter('artist', $this);
 }
 /**
 * @param Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request
 * @return bool
 * @throws Mage_Core_Model_Store_Exception
 */
 public function match(Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request)
 {
 if (!Mage::isInstalled()) {
 Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
 ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('install'))
 ->sendResponse();
 exit;
 }
 $requestPathInfo=trim($request->getPathInfo(),'/');
 if($requestPathInfo != 'artists'):
 return false;
 endif;
 $request->setModuleName('artist')
 ->setControllerName('list')
 ->setActionName('index');
 $request->setAlias(
 Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite::REWRITE_REQUEST_PATH_ALIAS,
 $requestPathInfo
 );
 return true;
 }

Finally, here is my action controller definition :

 <routers>
 <artist>
 <use>standard</use>
 <args>
 <module>Confidential_Artist</module>
 <frontName>artist</frontName>
 </args>
 </artist>
 </routers>

Can you help me please ? i don't know what's wrong.

Answer 1

I don't understand how the function match works but i found a solution.

I changes this function in this :

public function match(Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request)
 {
 if (!Mage::isInstalled()) {
 Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
 ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('install'))
 ->sendResponse();
 exit;
 }
 $identifier = trim($request->getPathInfo(), '/');
 if ($identifier == 'artists') {
 $request->setModuleName('artist')
 ->setControllerName('list')
 ->setActionName('index');
 $request->setAlias(
 Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite::REWRITE_REQUEST_PATH_ALIAS,
 $identifier
 );
 }
 return false;
 }

I don't understand if this is follow the magento standards. Can you give me more precisions please ?