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author | Loïc Hoguin <[email protected]> | 2018-11-14 16:42:46 +0100 |
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committer | Loïc Hoguin <[email protected]> | 2018-11-14 18:04:32 +0100 |
commit | f0cae8dbcf8d07035be069860fc4b22f7577d154 (patch) | |
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Document some undefined behavior in cowboy_router
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diff --git a/doc/src/guide/routing.asciidoc b/doc/src/guide/routing.asciidoc index 47ef3c5..e5f8c33 100644 --- a/doc/src/guide/routing.asciidoc +++ b/doc/src/guide/routing.asciidoc @@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ You can also have imbricated optional segments. [source,erlang] PathMatch = "/hats/[page/[:number]]". +While Cowboy does not reject multiple brackets in a route, +the behavior may be undefined if the route is under-specified. +For example, this route requires constraints to determine what +is a chapter and what is a page, since they are both optional: + +[source,erlang] +PathMatch = "/book/[:chapter]/[:page]". + You can retrieve the rest of the host or path using `[...]`. In the case of hosts it will match anything before, in the case of paths anything after the previously matched segments. It is |