Hello Alex,
The routing mechanism is based on Template objects
(http://www.restlet.org/docs/api/index.html?org/restlet/util/Template.html)
and Variable objects.
When defining a "route" with the "attach" method, a Template object is
created and then associated with this "route". This Template object is
in charge of parsing the requested URI and give it a score according to
some attributes. then the Router can compare the score of each route
defined and choose the one it prefers (*).
The way the Template object assigns a score can be customized with the
following modes :
* MODE_START_WITH (default)
* MODE_EQUALS
In order to solve your problem, you can use the "equals" mode :
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Route route = router.attach("/users/{user}", account);
route.getTemplate().setMatchingMode(Template.MODE_EQUALS);
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Otherwise, for a finer control, you can define the way variables (e.g. :
{user}) are consumed in the URI. See
(http://www.restlet.org/docs/api/index.html?org/restlet/util/Variable.html)
for more details. The default variable defined on all Template objects
matches a URI segment.
I hope this helps you.
Best regards,
Thierry Boileau
PS :
* 6 modes are available :
* Best match (default)
* First match
* Last match
* Random match
* Round robin
* Custom
Ok, I know that regex support has been removed, but I've run into a situation
where I kind of needed it. The basic idea was that I wanted to match only
strings that conformed to a very rigid format. So, taking from the tutorial, if
I did only
router.attach("/users/{user}", account);
and somebody tried to do "/users/blah/orders", I want it to not match anything.
As it stands right now, it would match and call 'account' with 'blah' as the
user. I used to be able to do this by doing
router.attach("/users/{user}$", account);
but that's removed now. So how can I go about regaining this functionality?
-Alex
