Router: Unable to configure child routes when using regex route

[brandonroberts]

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Bug

• What is the current behavior?

When trying to use regex route matching, the child routes for the route are not configured.

• If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via
  https://plnkr.co or similar (you can use this template as a starting point: http://plnkr.co/edit/tpl:AvJOMERrnz94ekVua0u5).

http://plnkr.co/edit/FmmaTD?p=preview

• What is the expected behavior?

I expect to provide the regex/serializer and configure child routes under the parent route.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

I should be able to define a parent route with regex/serializer and add use that route to group child routes under it.

• Please tell us about your environment:
• Angular version: 2.0.0-beta.X
• Browser: [all | Chrome XX | Firefox XX | IE XX | Safari XX | Mobile Chrome XX | Android X.X Web Browser | iOS XX Safari | iOS XX UIWebView | iOS XX WKWebView ]
• Language: [all | TypeScript X.X | ES6/7 | ES5 | Dart]

Angular 2.0.0-beta.9
Browser: all
Language: TypeScript

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktraces, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for us to have context, eg. stackoverflow, gitter, etc)

Open up the console after running the plunker to see the error. Sample stack trace

angular2.dev.js:23597 ORIGINAL EXCEPTION: Child routes are not allowed for "undefined". Use "..." on the parent's route path.

[btford]

How do you define what part of the regex goes on to the child to be matched?

[btford]

I agree this should be supported, but I think we need to extend the API to explicitly show how the regex capturing interacts with children. I see it as a missing feature rather than a bug.

[brandonroberts]

I think the generated URL from the serializer would still contain the ellipsis to indicate that the route was not terminal and the ellipsis would be stripped when the URL is generated. Explicitly marking a regex route with a terminal conifg property would be another option, although a lot less dynamic.

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