Hi, I am new to this channel, have a very basic question if anyone could help. I plan to create a ge...

# ktor

[NGupta]

Hi,
I am new to this channel, have a very basic question if anyone could help.
I plan to create a generic route for all my GET requests which would allow requests like
http://localhost:8080/a
http://localhost:8080/a/b
http://localhost:8080/a/b/c/././././

As of now I have 3 levels of hierarchy and I am handling it like this:
routing {
get("/*") {
//logic
}
get("/(STAR HERE)/*") {
//logic
}
get("/(* HERE)/(STAR HERE) /*") {
//logic
}
}

I have something similar for posts, and the hierarchies are expected to grow.
Thank you.

[enleur]

just catch route by wildcard and transform rest of the route to params

val str = "/a/1/c/2/e/3"

    val params = str.trim('/')
        .split("/")
        .windowed(2, 2)
        .associate { it[0] to it[1] }

[enleur]

it will give you a map ["a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => 3]

[robin]

@enleur I guess their question is how to catch the route by wildcards without specifying every level of the hierarchy. get("/*") will not be triggered by a call to a url that has a second segment.

[enleur]

get("/trololo/{...}")

should work

[enleur]

http://ktor.io/servers/features/routing.html#optional-wildcard-tailcard

[enleur]

or even

get("/trololo/{param...}")

[NGupta]

Thank you for the response, I will check and update

[NGupta]

{...} worked.. thanks a lot