Missing rendering Views from Controller documentation

[alanondra]

I had to go to Form Submissions / Reading Form Data to see how to render Views from Controllers. It should probably be included in both View and Controller documentation.

[thetutlage]

Shouldn't you simply check views docs to see how to render views? https://preview.adonisjs.com/guides/views/introduction#usage

[alanondra]

Can you highlight the part where it says view needs to be imported from HttpContextContract in the Controller method signature? Perhaps where HttpContextContract needs to be imported from?

[thetutlage]

Well, not sure what exactly you are upto.

Copy/paste the following code in routes file and it will work without any modifications

When you create a new controller using node ace make:controller command. It does import the HttpContextContract for you.

So just like the route callback, you use the view inside a controller. Not sure if that needs to be told explicitly.

Docs have to balance over writing too

[alanondra]

There is no indication on the page that you have to create this signature to use it with Controllers, merely passing { view } throws an exception:

public async index({ view } : HttpContextContract)

I'm telling you as a user that the documentation was not clear and there was no way to intuit that this was necessary, otherwise this ticket wouldn't have been created.