Reusable params helpers are not inherited.

[dim]

If you mount a child API within a parent API, all helper methods are correctly inherited from parent to child, but not params helpers, for example:

class Child < Grape::API
  get '/child' do
    respond_with_ok
  end
end

class Parent < Grape::API
  helpers do
    def respond_with_ok
      { status: 'ok' }
    end
  end

  get '/parent' do
    respond_with_ok
  end

  mount Child
end

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/parent  # => {:status=>"ok"}
$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/child    # => {:status=>"ok"}

The same doesn't really work for params, e.g:

class Child < Grape::API
  params do 
    use :page
  end
  get '/child' do
    params
  end
end

class Parent < Grape::API
  helpers do
    params :page do
      optional :page, type: Integer
    end
  end

  params do 
    use :page
  end
  get '/parent' do
    params
  end

  mount Child
end

Results in a:

RuntimeError: Params :page not found!

[dblock]

Turn it into a spec on HEAD?

[dim]

Sure, please see #2114 but I am not sure it's a simple fix. The params blocks are being evaluated at load time (and not e.g. on first access) which means that shared helpers are not even defined at this point.