I'm very interested in trying out the restlet project. One very typical thing that I do is use a servlet filter on the request to parse out parameters from the request path.
For example, I might have a URI like: http://www.example.com/id/1234 Using something like Tomcat & urlrewrite (see http://urlrewrite.dev.java.net ) I can write a regex that picks out the '1234' part and turns it into a request parameter. This is all done in a filter *before* the request hits the servlet. Looking at the restlet API, it looks like I can register a pattern of "/id/\d+" with the Router instance but I don't see how I can maintain the result of applying the regex. Basically, I want to capture part of the regex in a group (e.g. "/id/(\d+)" ) and then do something with it to allow the handling code to use the segment of the path that was parsed already once. Can I do this right now somehow with the restlet API & implementations available ? --Alex Milowski
