sisidovski
commented
1 year ago Thank you for filing the issue.
IIUC you'd like to capture matched strings with named groups. The named group should have : prefix, not suffix. If you have named groups with prefix. The result would be about your expectation.
const pattern = new URLPattern({pathname: "/image_from_tar/:tarfile/:tarpath*"})
const result = pattern.exec('https://exampl.ecom/image_from_tar/2301.12345/figures/old/figure2a.png')
result.pathname.groups
=> {tarfile: '2301.12345', tarpath: 'figures/old/figure2a.png'}
jeremyroman
What problem are you trying to solve?
I have a use case where I would like to match custom named for full-wildcard. It might look like this in urlpattern:
"https://example.com/image_from_tar/tarfile:/tarpath:*"
Where I would expect
https://exampl.ecom/image_from_tar/2301.12345/figures/old/figure2a.png
to result in a match and
:tarfileto be2301.12345andtarpath:to be/figures/old/figure2a.pngor something similar.What solutions exist today?
No response
How would you solve it?
No response
Anything else?
From section https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org/#example-pattern-strings it seems pattern string capture groups are supported but this use case is not as I understand by the text "up to a component-specific separator (/ in the pathname"
Also the parsing step 14 mentioned a custom name for a segment_wildcard but no custom name is mentioned for full-wildcard. This makes me think that a custom name is not possible on a full-wildcard in the current version.
I was looking at 24 Oct 2023 text of https://urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org/#part
Thanks.