[Dancer-users] Matching a route including slashes (for directory listing)

[Al Newkirk & Associates]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:05 AM, sawyer x <xsawyerx at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Joel,
>
> If you know the level, and you want to be explicit, you can try the default
> route syntax: '/media/*/*'.
> However, you will most likely prefer a regular expression (which you tried
> earlier), and Dancer allows that very easily since Perl considers regexes as
> first class:
> get qr/.../ => sub { ... };
>
> We prefer to wrap qr() with something other than slashes, so we don't get
> into a backslash fight:
> get qr{ / media / (.*) }x => sub { ... };
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
I feel compelled to caution about how the use of regexs can open security
holes in your application.
Another way to go would be to traverse the directory(s) and generate routes
based on the findings in a before action.

-- my 2 cents
-- Al
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