Add public support for relaxed route placeholder

Notation is #param (used by other frameworks, and inspired by Mojilicious)
It catches all chars until the first '/' or the end of the string.

This is the part to make trie implementation available from the rest package.

rest/route.go

@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ type Route struct {
 
 	// A string like "/resource/:id.json".
 	// Placeholders supported are:
-	// :param that matches any char to the first '/' or '.'
-	// *splat that matches everything to the end of the string
+	// :paramName that matches any char to the first '/' or '.'
+	// #paramName that matches any char to the first '/'
+	// *paramName that matches everything to the end of the string
 	// (placeholder names must be unique per PathExp)
 	PathExp string
 
@@ -57,8 +58,9 @@ func (route *Route) MakePath(pathParams map[string]string) string {
 	path := route.PathExp
 	for paramName, paramValue := range pathParams {
 		paramPlaceholder := ":" + paramName
+		relaxedPlaceholder := "#" + paramName
 		splatPlaceholder := "*" + paramName
-		r := strings.NewReplacer(paramPlaceholder, paramValue, splatPlaceholder, paramValue)
+		r := strings.NewReplacer(paramPlaceholder, paramValue, splatPlaceholder, paramValue, relaxedPlaceholder, paramValue)
 		path = r.Replace(path)
 	}
 	return path

rest/route_test.go

@@ -36,4 +36,15 @@ func TestReverseRouteResolution(t *testing.T) {
 	if got != expected {
 		t.Errorf("expected %s, got %s", expected, got)
 	}
+
+	relaxedParam := &Route{"GET", "/#file", nil}
+	got = relaxedParam.MakePath(
+		map[string]string{
+			"file": "a.txt",
+		},
+	)
+	expected = "/a.txt"
+	if got != expected {
+		t.Errorf("expected %s, got %s", expected, got)
+	}
 }

rest/router.go

@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
-// TODO
-// support for #param placeholder ?
-
 type router struct {
 	routes                 []*Route
 	disableTrieCompression bool
@@ -24,6 +21,41 @@ func escapedPath(urlObj *url.URL) string {
 	return parts[0]
 }
 
+var preEscape = strings.NewReplacer("*", "__SPLAT_PLACEHOLDER__", "#", "__RELAXED_PLACEHOLDER__")
+
+var postEscape = strings.NewReplacer("__SPLAT_PLACEHOLDER__", "*", "__RELAXED_PLACEHOLDER__", "#")
+
+func escapedPathExp(pathExp string) (string, error) {
+
+	// PathExp validation
+	if pathExp == "" {
+		return "", errors.New("empty PathExp")
+	}
+	if pathExp[0] != '/' {
+		return "", errors.New("PathExp must start with /")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(pathExp, "?") {
+		return "", errors.New("PathExp must not contain the query string")
+	}
+
+	// Get the right escaping
+	// XXX a bit hacky
+
+	pathExp = preEscape.Replace(pathExp)
+
+	urlObj, err := url.Parse(pathExp)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+
+	// get the same escaping as find requests
+	pathExp = urlObj.RequestURI()
+
+	pathExp = postEscape.Replace(pathExp)
+
+	return pathExp, nil
+}
+
 // This validates the Routes and prepares the Trie data structure.
 // It must be called once the Routes are defined and before trying to find Routes.
 // The order matters, if multiple Routes match, the first defined will be used.
@@ -34,25 +66,12 @@ func (rt *router) start() error {
 
 	for i, route := range rt.routes {
 
-		// PathExp validation
-		if route.PathExp == "" {
-			return errors.New("empty PathExp")
-		}
-		if route.PathExp[0] != '/' {
-			return errors.New("PathExp must start with /")
-		}
-		urlObj, err := url.Parse(route.PathExp)
+		// work with the PathExp urlencoded.
+		pathExp, err := escapedPathExp(route.PathExp)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
-		// work with the PathExp urlencoded.
-		pathExp := escapedPath(urlObj)
-
-		// make an exception for '*' used by the *splat notation
-		// (at the trie insert only)
-		pathExp = strings.Replace(pathExp, "%2A", "*", -1)
-
 		// insert in the Trie
 		err = rt.trie.AddRoute(
 			strings.ToUpper(route.HttpMethod), // work with the HttpMethod in uppercase

rest/router_test.go

@@ -293,15 +293,17 @@ func TestRouteOrder(t *testing.T) {
 
 	err := r.start()
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal()
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
 	input := "http://example.org/r/123"
 	route, params, pathMatched, err := r.findRoute("GET", input)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal()
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if route == nil {
+		t.Fatal("Expected one route to be matched")
 	}
-
 	if route.PathExp != "/r/:id" {
 		t.Errorf("both match, expected the first defined, got %s", route.PathExp)
 	}
@@ -313,6 +315,45 @@ func TestRouteOrder(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestRelaxedPlaceholder(t *testing.T) {
+
+	r := router{
+		routes: []*Route{
+			&Route{
+				HttpMethod: "GET",
+				PathExp:    "/r/:id",
+			},
+			&Route{
+				HttpMethod: "GET",
+				PathExp:    "/r/#filename",
+			},
+		},
+	}
+
+	err := r.start()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal()
+	}
+
+	input := "http://example.org/r/a.txt"
+	route, params, pathMatched, err := r.findRoute("GET", input)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if route == nil {
+		t.Fatal("Expected one route to be matched")
+	}
+	if route.PathExp != "/r/#filename" {
+		t.Errorf("expected the second route, got %s", route.PathExp)
+	}
+	if params["filename"] != "a.txt" {
+		t.Error()
+	}
+	if pathMatched != true {
+		t.Error()
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSimpleExample(t *testing.T) {
 
 	r := router{