Match as many URL route parameters as possible with path-to-regexp?

Question

I would like a means to match as many URL parameters as possible example

/teams/:teamID/players/:playerID/seasons/:seasonID/detail

would match anything starting with /teams and match as many parameters present, up to /detail (and only up to)

/Giants => { teamID: null, playerID: null, seasonID: null }
/Giants/123 => { teamID: 123, playerID: null, seasonID: null }
/Giants/123/players/ => same as above
/Giants/123/players/456/seasons/2020/detail => { teamId: 123, playerID: 456, seasonID: 2020 }
/Giants/123/players/446/seasons/2020 => same as above

and not match

/Giants/123/players/456/seasons/2020/detail/12345

I'm using path-to-regexp.

@Brad I'm in a React app and trying to use path-to-regexp (which Express uses to parse URL route patterns I believe) — blue18hutthutt, Apr 21 '20 at 02:57
@blue18hutthutt In that case, I'd recommend dropping the Node.js tag and mentioning in your question the module. — Brad, Apr 21 '20 at 03:00
Re-opened the question, as given the details in the comments, it's different than the duplicate it was closed as. — Brad, Apr 21 '20 at 03:41

Aviv Lo · Answer 1 · 2020-04-21T02:26:56.397

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If there is a possibility of not using regex, you can probably split the URL into an array using / as a separator. Get every element of the array that's after team all the way until the details.

edited Apr 21 '20 at 02:26

answered Apr 21 '20 at 01:59

Aviv Lo

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Is it not a feasible answer that I got a down vote? – Aviv Lo Apr 21 '20 at 02:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 22 '20 at 20:22

I found a nice library that does exactly what I need, is extremely lite and uses well-tested pieces of Backbone.js to do the pattern matching:

https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/feather-route-matcher

Examples:

pattern: '/users/:id' 
url: '/something-else' 
extracted params: nothing, because it won't match

pattern: '/users/:id' 
url: '/users/scrooge-mc-duck' 
extracted params: {id: 'scrooge-mc-duck'}

pattern: '/users/:id' 
url: '/users/47' 
extracted params: {id: '47'}

pattern: '/schools/:schoolId/teachers/:teacherId' 
url: '/schools/richland/teachers/47' 
extracted params: {schoolId: 'richland', teacherId: '47'}

This provided me exactly what I wanted and needed

Match as many URL route parameters as possible with path-to-regexp?

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