Get wildcard value

Firstly, lovely little router this but one thing I’m not clear on. Is there a way in the handler, to get the value that a wildcard matched on. For example,

const router = Router()
router.get('/maps/tiles/vector/*', vectorTilesHandler)
router.get('/maps/tiles/static/*', staticTilesHandler)
router.get('/maps/packs/vector/*', vectorPacksHandler)
router.get('/maps/packs/static/*', staticPacksHandler)

I’d like to get the whole wildcard value in the handler. I can get the full url, but then that means I need to remove the host and duplicate the initial piece of path so I can strip that off the string.

Likewise I can’t use parameters because you can’t have a greedy parameter that takes all segments. The reason I need the wildcard is so i can proxy it as is (in these cases).

[R167]

@kwhitley Here’s an example of how Express (JS) and Sinatra (Ruby) handle unnamed wildcards:

From the docs, they state Express (v4) takes the approach of making these index based on params. For example, for the path /file/*, express exposes the splat parameter at req.params[0] (express req.params)

When you use a regular expression for the route definition, capture groups are provided in the array using req.params[n], where n is the nth capture group. This rule is applied to unnamed wild card matches with string routes such as /file/*:

// GET /file/javascripts/jquery.js
console.dir(req.params[0])
// => 'javascripts/jquery.js'

Alternatively, the Ruby library mustermann used by sinatra uses the default name “splat”, so you can get the wildcard capture group at params["splat"].

pattern = Mustermann.new('/:prefix/*.*')
pattern.params('/a/b.c') # => { "prefix" => "a", splat => ["b", "c"] }

Hope that’s useful!

[kwhitley]

Thanks for understanding! When I get some free time this week, I’ll try to take a stab at a splat enabled wrapper! 😃