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machineghost
machineghost

Reputation: 35805

How Can I Have Optional *Non*-Parameter URL Parts?

This Stack Overflow question/answer explains how to define React Router (v4) routes which contain multiple optional parameter, eg.:

<Route path="/to/page/:pathParam1?/:pathParam2?" component={MyPage} />

However, it doesn't explain how to put optional text in-between those parameters, for instance:

<Route path="/to/page/:pathParam1?/otherParam/:pathParam2?" component={MyPage} />
// Should match /to/page/1 AND /to/page/1/otherParam/2

This was certainly possible in previous versions of React Router, but I can't see how to do it in the current version. Is there any way to specify optional parameter/non-parameter pairings, or even just optional non-parameters? Something like:

<Route path="/to/page/:pathParam1?/(otherParam/:pathParam2?)" component={MyPage} />

Upvotes: 0

Views: 601

Answers (1)

gunn
gunn

Reputation: 9165

React router uses path-to-regexp - https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp

You can match optional non-parameters with a path like this:

const path = "/to/page/:pathParam1?/(otherParam)?/:pathParam2?"

And to test it:

const re = pathToRegexp(path)

console.log(re.exec("/to/page/1"))
// ["/to/page/1", "1", undefined, undefined]

console.log(re.exec("/to/page/1/otherParam/2"))
// ["/to/page/1/otherParam/2", "1", "otherParam", "2"]

Upvotes: 2

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