On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:25:53PM +0200, sawyer x wrote:

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Al Newkirk & Associates <we@ana.im> wrote:

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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:05 AM, sawyer x <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:

Hey Joel,

If you know the level, and you want to be explicit, you can try the default route syntax: '/media/*/*'.

Thanks. Will test this out.

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However, you will most likely prefer a regular expression (which you tried earlier), and Dancer allows that very easily since Perl considers regexes as first class: get qr/.../ => sub { ... };

Of course. I shouldn't have confined my thinking to the cookbook/introduction.

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We prefer to wrap qr() with something other than slashes, so we don't get into a backslash fight: get qr{ / media / (.*) }x => sub { ... };

\o/

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Enjoy!

I feel compelled to caution about how the use of regexs can open security holes in your application.

Thanks for bringing this up.

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Another way to go would be to traverse the directory(s) and generate routes based on the findings in a before action.

That was how I had originally done it, one level only, generating a page to represent the contents, as a cron job. A dynamic approach seemed easier, and suitable for this small site. Perhaps I'll go back to that, after trying out the regexen-- at least for my own satisfaction. Thanks to all! Joel

That's a good point and a good idea!

Thanks, Al!

-- Joel Roth