Passing unknown number of params to NodeJS routes

Question

Passing unknown number of params to NodeJS routes

How can I pass an unknown number of params to NodeJS routes, and save them to an array?:

http://127.0.0.1:3000/param1/param2/param3...

I thought about doing:

app.get('/*', myHandler);

And just tokenize the string, but there should be a better way.

node.js
express

Answer 1

It looks like you are using express routing in NodeJS. If so, you might want to experiment with the regular expressions. Like the following will give you the full path (/vararg/) in req.params[0] but there may be a better way:

app.get(/^\/vararg\/(.*)/, function(req,res) {  
    res.send("Got parameters : " + req.params[0]); 
})

So if I do a get on localhost:3000/vararg/foo/bar/gar it will send:

Got parameters : foo/bar/gar

Or localhost:3000/vararg/foo will produce:

Got parameters : foo

And then you can split the parameter into the other parts.