On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7:54:36 AM UTC-5, Louis Amon wrote: > > 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). > > > That’s actually what I ended up doing, but it isn’t something you can rely > on in a big project… >
Why not? > In some cases, $anything isn't powerful enough, and you need to use > regular expressions. > > > I was hoping there would be an alternative, but I guess regular > expressions are indeed the only option to do things properly. > Did you have a particular API in mind? The parameter-based system is designed to be much simpler while cover the most common use cases, but if you want something highly customized, there will inevitably be some complexity to the rules you set up. Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
