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@andrewnicols andrewnicols commented Dec 9, 2024

When using a route which contains both an unlimited optional placeholder, and another optional placeholder afterwards, the incorrect values are collected.

For example, given the following route:

/go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]

The following behaviour is currently observed:

  • route: /go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]
  • url: /go/to/australia/perth/info/about
  • location: 'australia/perth/info/about'
  • subpage: ''

Note that the location contains /info/about and the subpage is empty.

This is inconsistent with the behaviour where an unlimited value is not used:

  • route: /go/to/[{location}[/info/{subpage}]]
  • url: /go/to/australia/info/about
  • location: 'australia'
  • subpage: 'about'

In the case of the unlimited optional path, the expected behaviour is: The correct value would be:

  • route: /go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]
  • url: /go/to/australia/perth/info/about
  • location: 'australia/perth'
  • subpage: 'about'

This commit change updates the route dispatcher to reverse the order of the routes when adding routes to the router, which brings the unlimited path placeholder format inline with limited path placeholders.

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Note: 1.3.0 is also impacted by this bug.

andrewnicols added a commit to andrewnicols/moodle that referenced this pull request Dec 10, 2024
See the following upstream issues for further information:

- nikic/FastRoute#292
- nikic/FastRoute#293
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Any chance of a review on this issue?

Thanks

When using a route which contains both an unlimited optional
placeholder, and another optional placeholder afterwards, the incorrect
values are collected.

For example, given the following route:

```
/go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]
```

The following behaviour is currently observed:

- route: `/go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]`
- url: `/go/to/australia/perth/info/about`
- location: `'australia/perth/info/about'`
- subpage: `''`

Note that the `location` contains `/info/about` and the `subpage` is
empty.

This is inconsistent with the behaviour where an unlimited value is
_not_ used:

- route: `/go/to/[{location}[/info/{subpage}]]`
- url: `/go/to/australia/info/about`
- location: `'australia'`
- subpage: `'about'`

In the case of the unlimited optional path, the expected behaviour is:
The correct value would be:

- route: `/go/to/[{location:.*}[/info/{subpage}]]`
- url: `/go/to/australia/perth/info/about`
- location: `'australia/perth'`
- subpage: `'about'`

This commit change updates the route dispatcher to reverse the order of
the routes when adding routes to the router, which brings the unlimited
path placeholder format inline with limited path placeholders.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Nicols <andrew@nicols.co.uk>
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I believe I've solved all of the GHA failures.

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lcobucci commented Jan 3, 2025

@andrewnicols I'll have a look soon.

The problem here is that this will affect the performance of the matching process. Also it isn't really a bug, as unbound parameters aren't officially supported - thus the lack of tests for it.

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bwoebi commented Jan 3, 2025

I don't think this needs a fix. The regex should be simply ungreedy, i.e. {location:.*?}.

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