[dancer-users] D1 => D2 Regex route is not anchored any more

[Sawyer X]

There are two issues open for going over this part. I hope to have them
resolved this week to cover all cases.

It makes sense to anchor them, but I believe we found an issue which made
us change it. Should dig through the Git history when doing this.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com> wrote:
>
> I just found an issue with my D1 => D2 migration that broke the Perl Maven
> site.
> I think I managed to fix it but I'd like to clarify this:
>
> I used to have a route handler like this:
>
> get qr{/pro/(.*)} => sub {
>
>     my ($path) = splat;
>
>     return $path;
>
> };
> In D1 this was matching only routes that started with /pro
> As if there was an implicit ^ at the beginning of the route.
>
> Now, in D2, it will match anywhere so it started to match URLs such as
> /media/pro/file
>
> I could fix this by adding an explicit caret to the beginning of the regex:
>
> get qr{^/pro/(.*)} => sub {
>
>     my ($path) = splat;
>
>     return $path;
>
> };
>
> Please confirm if this is really the case or if I just had some other
> issues?
> I think this should be added to the migration document with the
> recommended solution.
>
> Could I have solved this with the "prefix" keyword? How? Would that be
> better?
>
> regards
>     Gabor
>
>
>
>
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