Blank space for :path in path parameter

[jamfie]

Hi. Was going through the documentation regarding path parameters. I realize it works when

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()


@app.get('/files/{file_path:path}')
async def read_file(file_path: str):
    return({"file_path": f_path})

but return 404 when

from fastapi import FastAPI

app = FastAPI()


@app.get('/files/{file_path: path}')
async def read_file(file_path: str):
    return({"file_path": f_path})

Notice how there is a blank space after the colon for the wrong demonstration: file_path: path. Is this behavior expected?

[coder3112]

That is because it considers the space as a character and wants you to put that extra space in the URL which is not possible. So i suggest that you stick with the first code, why change it when it works.

[raphaelauv]

@jamfie close the issue if it's alright , thank you

[tiangolo]

Thanks for the help here @coder3112 and @raphaelauv! 🍰

And thanks for closing it @jamfie ☕

Sorry for the long delay! 🙈 I wanted to personally address each issue/PR and they piled up through time, but now I'm checking each one in order.