Support for Full URL and Wildcards

[drveresh]

Hi,

This seems to work only with relative URLs. Can you please extend the functionality to support full-length URLs as well? We need the solution for below use cases:

1. Sub-string match
Input URL: www.amazo.com/xyz/dp/B00UIIDP06/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=photo
Matcher: routeMatcher("/dp/:asin/:extra");
Results: null, it doesn't work because it is expecting the input as "dp/B00UIIDP06/ref=sr_1_1_sspa.."
Ideal Case: It should just check the pattern exist in give full-length URL. If it is expected, then we need to manually extract the relative URL then feed to this.

2. Forced expression
Input URL: www.amazo.com/xyz/dp/B00UIIDP06/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=photo
Matcher: routeMatcher("/dp/:asin/");
Results: null, it doesn't work because it is expecting to cover even beyond "/B00UIIDP06/", for "/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=photo"
Ideal Case: There is no need to check beyond what is required(/dp/:asin/). In case, if there are multiple params/sections like "/abc/edf/zya/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?blah..", then we should extend the expression to really long

3. How to cover before/after from the matching point, like Wildcards? Similar to https://www.npmjs.com/package/route-pattern?

Input URL: www.amazo.com/xyz/dp/B00UIIDP06/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?s=photo
Matcher(expected): routeMatcher("[*before]dp/:asin/[*after]");
Ideal Case: It is useful to know before/after URL parts when a given pattern is matched

Thanks and appreciating your support!

[drveresh]

@cowboy Any updates on this?

I am eagerly waiting for these features and there too many use cases depend on URL sub-string matching.