Tidy up some of the status routing

Status routes were a bit of a mess and involved redirects,
which is only going to slow things down. I've amalgamated them
into one route and used query parameters to determine any actions
being performed.

app/Http/Controllers/StatusController.php

@@ -9,19 +9,31 @@ use Illuminate\Http\Request;
 
 class StatusController extends Controller
 {
-    public function show_status(string $status_id)
+    public function show_status(Request $request, string $status_id)
     {
-        if (session()->has('return_status'))
+        // The user has a session and may be here to favourite/unfavourite
+        // a status.
+        if (session()->has('user'))
         {
-            // This route can be called as a redirect after favouriting, etc.,
-            // in which case the status returned by the API will have been stored
-            // in the user's session.
-            $status = session('return_status');
-            session()->forget('return_status');
+            $user = session('user');
+            if ($request->action === 'favourite')
+            {
+                $status = Mastodon::domain(env('MASTODON_DOMAIN'))
+                    ->token($user->token)
+                    ->post('/statuses/' . $status_id . '/favourite');
+            }
+            elseif ($request->action === 'unfavourite')
+            {
+                $status = Mastodon::domain(env('MASTODON_DOMAIN'))
+                    ->token($user->token)
+                    ->post('/statuses/' . $status_id . '/unfavourite');
+            }
         }
-        else
+        
+        // If the status hasn't been returned from performing an action on it,
+        // we need to query for it.
+        if (!isset($session))
         {
-            // If the status isn't in the session, we need to query for it.
             $status = Mastodon::domain(env('MASTODON_DOMAIN'))
                 ->get('/statuses/' . $status_id);
         }
@@ -34,30 +46,4 @@ class StatusController extends Controller
 
         return view('show_status', $vars);
     }
-
-    public function favourite_status(string $status_id)
-    {
-        $user = session('user');
-
-        $status = Mastodon::domain(env('MASTODON_DOMAIN'))
-            ->token($user->token)
-            ->post('/statuses/' . $status_id . '/favourite');
-
-        session(['return_status' => $status]);
-
-        return redirect()->route('status', ['status_id' => $status_id]);
-    }
-
-    public function unfavourite_status(string $status_id)
-    {
-        $user = session('user');
-
-        $status = Mastodon::domain(env('MASTODON_DOMAIN'))
-            ->token($user->token)
-            ->post('/statuses/' . $status_id . '/unfavourite');
-
-        session(['return_status' => $status]);
-
-        return redirect()->route('status', ['status_id' => $status_id]);
-    }
 }

public/css/styles.css

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ div.status img.avatar {
     color: goldenrod;
 }
 
-div.actions span {
+div.actions > span {
     margin-right: 1em;
 }
 

resources/views/status.blade.php

@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
         <!-- Favourite -->
         <span>
             @if ($status['favourited'])
-                <span class="favourited"><a href="/status/{{ $status['id'] }}/unfavourite">&#9733;</a></span>
+                <span class="favourited"><a href="/status/{{ $status['id'] }}?action=unfavourite">&#9733;</a></span>
             @else
-                <a href="/status/{{ $status['id'] }}/favourite">&#9734;</a>
+                <a href="/status/{{ $status['id'] }}?action=favourite">&#9734;</a>
             @endif
             {{ $status['favourites_count'] }}
         </span>

routes/web.php

@@ -35,12 +35,6 @@ Route::post('/timeline/home', 'TimelineController@post_status')
 Route::get('/status/{status_id}', 'StatusController@show_status')
 	->name('status');
 
-Route::get('/status/{status_id}/favourite', 'StatusController@favourite_status')
-	->middleware('authorize');
-
-Route::get('/status/{status_id}/unfavourite', 'StatusController@unfavourite_status')
-	->middleware('authorize');
-
 Route::get('/login', 'LoginController@login')
 	->name('login');