the behavior of the trailing slash should be more intuitive and consistent

[AlJohri]

I want a trailing slash for routes with parameters, such as /api/v1/templates/1/. any way to achieve that? it gives a 404 right now and only works without the trailing slash

[hoatle]

there is a note on docs:

"
Note
Flask-Classful favors putting trailing slashes at the end of routes without parameters. You can override this behavior by specifying trailing_slash=False either as an attribute of your FlaskView or in the register method.
"

from: http://flask-classful.teracy.org/#flask-classful-s-way-of-talking-about-routes

by default, a trailing slash should work. Could you provide the sample code to see if there is anything wrong?

[hoatle]

related: #46 for the next release version that trailing slash can be optional.

[AlJohri]

@hoatle here is an example app: https://github.com/AlJohri/nonworking-flask-apispec-example

I was using it to debug a flask-apispec issue jmcarp/flask-apispec#54 (comment) but you can see the trailing slash issue here as well.

The routes that work are:

• http://localhost:5000/templates/
• http://localhost:5000/templates/1

The route that doesn't work is:

• http://localhost:5000/templates/1/

[AlJohri]

The relevant code is:

class TemplateResource(FlaskView, metaclass=ResourceMeta):
    route_base = '/templates/'
    trailing_slash = True

    @marshal_with(TemplateSchema(many=True))
    def index(self):
        return Template.query.all()

    @marshal_with(TemplateSchema)
    def get(self, template_id):
        template = Template.query.filter(Template.id == template_id).one()
        return template

TemplateResource.register(app)

The issue occurs with trailing_slash set to True or False.

[hoatle]

hello @AlJohri, this works by using route

from flask import Flask
from flask_classful import FlaskView, route

# we'll make a list to hold some quotes for our app
quotes = [
    "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man! ~ Jebediah Springfield",
    "If there is a way to do it better... find it. ~ Thomas Edison",
    "No one knows what he can do till he tries. ~ Publilius Syrus"
]

app = Flask(__name__)

class QuotesView(FlaskView):
    def index(self):
        return "<br>".join(quotes)

    @route('/<id>/')
    def get(self, id):
      id = int(id)
      if id < len(quotes) - 1:
          return quotes[id]
      else:
          return "Not Found", 404

By using route as above, /quotes/<id> is redirected to /quotes/<id>/ and it should work.

By default (without route shown above, the current behavior is /quotes/<id> works only).

Could you try with route to see if it works?

[hoatle]

I guess we should check back the behavior of the trailing slash to get it more intuitive for the next version.

[hoatle]

hello @AlJohri, it's considered as a bug from your report and it should be fixed now.