Support mixing dynamic params with static string in same segment

[SilentDepth]

Repro

https://runkit.com/silentdepth/633470604bb52500089af4de

Issue

One

• /:msg
• /:msg.txt

The current version sees these 2 patterns as the same, and the second will overrides the first. However, they should be different.

Two

• /:msg.txt
• /:msg/uppercase.txt

Just not sure how these work... The result confuses me.

Versions

Node: 16.17.0
radix3: 0.1.2

[pi0]

Hi @SilentDepth and thanks for repro and explaining. The issue you are facing is that .txt is becoming part of the param name as you can see in the output it is params: Object {msg.txt: "something"}.

Currently, radix 3 does not allow combining a param name with some static prefix and/or suffix in the same segment like /foo/prefix-:param-suffix.

[lihbr]

Hey there, just chiming in with a temporary workaround for this issue/out-of-scope request

I managed to support file extensions routing by transforming routes before resolving them, something in that fashion if that makes sense (simplified for clarity purpose):

import { createRouter } from "radix3";

const router = createRouter();

router.insert("/foo/:msg/dot/txt");

router.lookup("/foo/something.txt".replace(".", "/dot/"));

It's limited, and suboptimal, but it ain't stupid if it works ^^'

I'm curious however if this is out-of-scope for radix 3 or what are the plans, if any, to either support something like that or supporting/replacing colon-based parameters (:slug) with square brackets-based parameters ([slug])?

Happy to help~