Web request routing
Until v6.1 Aida used only an URLResolver for two-way url to domain object (and vice versa) resolving. But there is a need for more flexible request routing and to ease the URLResolver from routing where one-way is good enough (like static file serving).
That's why a WebRouter class is introduced in Aida 6.1. It routes a web request according to the url pattern to the appropriate request handler. By default this is just an URLResolver.
Default routes and their url patterns are (in exact order):
- '/*' -> anURLResolver
Url pattern is simply a matching criteria used in Smalltalk #match: method for string matching. It match a relative Url of web request (without query part) to the specified url pattern of a route. Url pattern is case insensitive.
Examples:
- '/*' matches all Urls
- '/img/* mathces Urls starting with /img/, like /img/common/myimage.jpg
- '*/person/*' matches urls which contains this string in the middle, like /site/person/myname