Regex extractors don't behave as expected

[Benjamin Conlan]

While attempting to resolve an issue regarding a typical url encoded path test/user%2B" I discovered that match-route function was returning nil.

(bidi/match-route ["/" {"test/" {[:slug] :om/details}}] "/test/user%2B")

Looking into the documentation/readme I discovered that there is a case to handle this issue which is simply to change the '[:slug] mapping handler to use a tuple of regex & keyword. In doing this I discovered that only the last character was being returned this can be exemplified by the following bidi function:

(bidi/match-route ["/" {"test/" {[#"[\w+\%]+" :slug] :om/details}}] "/test/user%2B")

Looking into the code I noticed that the function:

(bidi/match-pattern [#"[\w+\%]+" :slug] {:remainder "user%2B"})

Is building up a 'safe' regex which leads to unexpected results (in my case it became: #"([\w+\%]+)([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.]+)(.*)) (line bidi.bidi.cljc#258)

Either I'm doing something that is entirely incorrect (usually the case) or the 'grouping' regex safety functionality is causing unexpected behavior (at least to what I've expected from the documentation)

[Dirk Bergmann]

Are there any updates on this? My regex is ignored and only ([A-Za-z0-9-_.]+)(.*)) is matched after being appended on bidi.bidi.cljc#258. I get only the last match (letter) unless I use an empty regex (#"")

[Timothy Pratley]

Thanks for the tips, I ran into the same problem and Found a different solution:

["lesson" [[["" [#".*" :id]] #'lesson/lesson-view]]]

Note that instead of just [#".*" :id] I used ["" [#".*" :id]] and now it gives the full string.

The reason I needed the anything regex is because the route from that path can contain slashes.

I don't really grok why it has to be done this way... but putting the empty string before it seems to help.

[Brian Marco]

This trick worked because bidi requires the #"regex" and :id to be in a vector pair within the overall vector.

For example:

(bidi/match-route ["/" {[#"\d+" :id] {"/" :id-handler}}] "/123/")

and

(bidi/match-route ["/" {[#"\d+" :id "/"] {"" :id-handler}}] "/123/")

will both fail whereas

(bidi/match-route ["/" {[[#"\d+" :id]] {"/" :id-handler}}] "/123/")

and

(bidi/match-route ["/" {[[#"\d+" :id] "/"] {"" :id-handler}}] "/123/")

will both succeed.

So for the original question this should work:

(bidi/match-route ["/" {"test/" {[[#"[\w+\%]+" :slug]] :om/details}}] "/test/user%2B")

[Timothy Pratley]

Oh, I see, thank you for clarifying.