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node.jsroutesexpress
codr
codr

Reputation: 914

express.js routing

Do these two express.js routes match?

/:campus/:tlf_id/message
/:campus/:message_id/reply

In express.js it seem that the do. I'm not sure I understand this correctly.

That is, if requesting /12/90/reply might it be caught by /:campus/:tlf_id/message?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1122

Answers (3)

user8122697
user8122697

Reputation:

The 2 routes are not the same. because the word after the : determines that it's a parameter that will be used and accessed so parameters values could be equal like that tlf_id = 12 and message_id = 12 so the route in this case could be /2/12 in both routes but the last keyword is what determines which route will be accessed so if both values are the same it will be

/2/12/message
/2/12/reply

so what will matter then is the last keyword you are using.

Upvotes: 0

Yash Bele
Yash Bele

Reputation: 686

They Actually don't match.Both links are different from each other.You should add : after 3rd / for both links to be same.

Upvotes: 0

respectTheCode
respectTheCode

Reputation: 43066

They don't match because the 3rd url part is not prefixed with a colon. The colon prefix on the first 2 turns them into a named parameters and match anything other than /. The 3rd part will be a required match. So the over simplified RegEx for the routes would be /([^/]+)/([^/]+)/message and /([^/]+)/([^/]+)/reply.

Upvotes: 1

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