In some cases, $anything isn't powerful enough, and you need to use regular
expressions.
Anyway, the rules are processed in order, so you should be able to include
a rule mapping static to static, and then include the /s$anything rule
(which won't be matched to "static" because the static rule will already
have matched).
Anthony
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 6:18:02 AM UTC-5, Louis Amon wrote:
>
> I'm opening this thread to discuss pattern-based routing and especially
> the handling of args and vars in an incoming URL.
>
>
> Based on the doc, you can use a simplified syntax in pattern-based routes
> to avoid struggling with regular expressions:
>
> ('/new_name/$anything', '/app/controller/function$anything')
>
> If you do so however, the URL */new_name/args* would be reachable but
> */new_name* wouldn't and neither would */new_name?this=that*.
>
> One solution I found to this problem is to write instead:
>
> ('/s$anything', '/myapp/default/search$anything')
>
> (notice there is no */* before the *$*)
>
> I changed *new_name* to *s* in order to illustrate another issue : if you
> use *$anything* like I just did, you might have conflicts between URLs
> depending on where in the list (routes_in) your put this specific rule.
>
> For instance, routing */static* would be problematic with a */s$anything*
> rule.
>
>
> In fact, what you really need to route is much less than */s$anything*.
> As far as I can see there are 4 cases:
> 1. /s
> 2. /s?vars
> 3. /s/args
> 4. /s/args?vars
>
> I guess writing explicity these 4 rules would do the trick much better
> than */s$anything*, thus avoiding the conflict with /static... but it
> could also become very bulky if you have to write 4 rules for each URL.
>
>
> Is there a clean way to do this using the pattern-based system ?
>
>
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