Express.js route parameter with slashes

Question

Express.js route parameter with slashes

I have an application which serves file listings.

The application must respond to following routes:

/company/:id
/company/:id/dir
/company/:id/dir/dir

Here /company/:id is a route with no path specified e.g a root directory. I was thinking for something like app.get('/company/:id/:path', ... which obviously doesn't work.

How can I define a route which responds to all of the examples?

node.js
express

Answer 1

Full example

var express = require('express')();

express.use(express.router);

express.get('/company/:id*', function(req, res, next) {
    res.json({
        id: req.param('id'),
        path: req.param(0)
    });    
});

express.listen(8080);

The only case it doesn't handle is '/company/:id' without a trailing slash.

Maybe use a regex instead of :id.