Feature Request - support parsing of request.path

[briantist]

Unlike the body for example, we can't do intensive parsing of the path. The .regex() and .concat() methods don't work on the path.

The :value part of the path also cannot be limited to specific values, so you can't simultaneously get a particular part of path while limiting which values match.

As an example, I have a config like this:

request:
  method: POST|PUT
  path: "/api/v1/method/create*/resource"

I want to match create*, so create or create-thing or create-other would be valid for that part of the path.

In the response, I want to reference that component, or part of it. I'd like to use regex maybe:

response:
  statusCode: 200
  headers:
    Content-Type:
      - application/json
  body: 'A request to create {{request.path.regex(/create-([^/]*)/)}} has been received.'

However that doesn't work.

If I instead do:

request:
  method: POST|PUT
  path: "/api/v1/method/:method/resource"

then I guess I can do:

response:
  statusCode: 200
  headers:
    Content-Type:
      - application/json
  body: 'A request to {{request.path.method}} has been received.'

Which is something.. but not quite the same, as I can't do any string manipulation on it.

But even worse, is that the config will match paths I don't want it to match, like /api/v1/method/delete/resource.

It seems that my only option is hardcoding the possible permutations of paths I want to match into multiple configs, with a lot of duplication and slightly different responses. The data I need isn't in the body of the request, so it seems like I'm stuck.

[jdietrich-tc]

One of my latest PRs #167 addresses this by adding a new pathVariables object to the request:

So for your case you could have:

request:
 method: POST|PUT
 path: "/api/v1/method/:create/resource"
 pathVariables:
   create: "^create.*"
response:
 statusCode: 200
 headers:
   Content-Type:
     - application/json
 body: 'A request to {{request.path.create}} has been received.'

• /api/v1/method/create-thing/resource
  • matches
• /api/v1/method/delete/resource
  • does not match
• /api/v1/method/delete-create/resource
  • does not match