How can I find the original route?

[parris]

Let's say a request matched to /user/:id. Is there an easy way from some middleware's context to get the original route string instead of the current path.

this.url might produce /user/1234, but I'm looking for /user/:id so I can do some additional checks before some other middleware.

Thanks!

[hallas]

I don't think we "stick" this anywhere, sorry

[hallas]

I'm open for someone to add it in though, it could be useful

[tejasmanohar]

Hmm... can't be done with route as is, but this is an interesting problem.

this.url might produce /user/1234, but I'm looking for /user/:id so I can do some additional checks before some other middleware.

@parris: I'm also open to PRs adding this but curious. What's your use case? "additional checks"? Sounds like you should pass in a compose'd route as the handler. For example,

app.use(route.get('/thing', compose([mw1, mw2, thing]))

[boertel]

I would also be interested by this because it's needed by opbeat in order to track performance per request. Here is the documentation: https://opbeat.com/docs/articles/get-started-with-a-custom-nodejs-stack/#route-naming

[hfjallemark]

I believe this was addressed in #49, right?