Wild card patterns for paths

[agentgt]

From what I gather is no wild card path support right? In other words you can't do something like the following:.

    var app = Davis(function () {
      this.get('/welcome/**', function (req) {
        alert("Hello " + req.params['name'])
      })
    })

"**" in this case means all paths and subpaths underneath '/wecome/' an example implementation in Java is here: http://static.springsource.org/spring-security/site/docs/3.1.x/apidocs/org/springframework/security/web/util/AntPathRequestMatcher.html

[olivernn]

In the current 0.8.x version there is no support for wildcard route matching, however I have already added it to what will become version 0.9.x in the next branch.

It could change an any time yet but currently the api looks like this:

this.get('/welcome/*name', function () {
  console.log(req.params['name'])
})

As you would expect this will match the following:

/welcome/foo
/welcome/foo/bar/baz

If all goes well I should be able to put together a release next week.

[marcuslindblom]

Is it possible to do something like this

this.get('/pages/[this-can-be-one-slug/or-maybe-two/or-as-many-as-i-like]/edit', function (req) {
 alert('Editing: ' + req.params[the slugs]);
})

[olivernn]

@kloojed that would work because the string gets turned into a regex. The new release will have support for this, I'm hoping to get a release out early next week, travelling has delayed it a little,

[olivernn]

Added in version 0.9.0

[raags]

Ah, luckily Google led me to this page. Could you put these feature in the documentation?

[olivernn]

Good call, I'll get this added to the site and api docs, thanks for bring it to my attention

[joelgalvez]

on 0.99, how do I name and access the second segment?

'/page/[one/two/three]/:somevalue'

i've tried

'/page/[one/two/three]:thing/:somevalue' '/page/([one/two/three]):thing/:somevalue'

etc...