[QUESTION] Relative Path

[victoraugustolls]

Hi!

I looked through the docs but might have missed something.

Is it possible to extract the relative path from a Request?
If I have a route like /users/{id}, I would like to get exactly this value, and not the absolute path with the id value.

Thanks!

[tomchristie]

Sure thing... request.url.path

[victoraugustolls]

Actually this returned the full path, like /users/123 instead of /users/{id}.
@tomchristie

[tomchristie]

Right, I see what you're asking. (Tho that's not "absolute path" vs. "relative path".)
No there's not really a way to do that at the moment.
What's the use-case?

[victoraugustolls]

Grouping logs by path. In my use case, Microsoft Application Insights, which I need to set an operation name for them to group by it, and the path rule (?) would be the best way to do it.

Is this in the backlog or desirable to have in Starlette?

[tomchristie]

Is this in the backlog or desirable to have in Starlette?

There's this, which covers some similar ground... #685

I think we'd eventually want to include something like a request.route property.

[victoraugustolls]

Seems to be pretty much my use case...
In any way, thanks for the help, hope Starlette implement this soon :)
Will try to look through the code to see if I can help also.

[victoraugustolls]

@tomchristie would you help me by pointing me to the right direction to help with this?

[BrikerMan]

@tomchristie @victoraugustolls Any updaye on this issue?

[victoraugustolls]

Hey @BrikerMan ! There is a PR (#804) but it is pretty much stuck.