Obtain URL path from an arbitrary GET request

[Tim Cooke]

I would like to find a way to determine what the URL is for any arbitrary request to the server. For example, sticking with GET requests for now, I have tried the following:

(defroutes app-routes
  (GET "/:url" [url] (str "Url: " url))
  (route/not-found "Not Found"))

Which yields the following results:
GET server/           "Not Found" GET server/path       "Url: path" GET server/path/more  "Not Found"
What I really want is for GET server/path/more to yield "Url: path/more".

I'm currently using compojure but am not constrained to it so a suggestion using just ring or something else would be welcome too.

Thanks.

[Tim Cooke]

I found a solution in this Compojure Google Group discussion. Turns out you can redefine the pattern matching RegEx for the route parameter. Neat!

(defroutes app-routes
  (GET ["/:path" :path #".*"] [path & params] (str "GET - Path: " path ", Params: " params))
  (POST ["/:path" :path #".*"] [path & params] (str "POST - Path: " path ", Params: " params))
  (route/not-found "Not Found"))

Yields:
$ curl localhost:8081/ff/dd?data=somedata GET - Path: ff/dd, Params: {:data "somedata"} $ curl -d data=somedata localhost:8081/ff/dd POST - Path: ff/dd, Params: {:data "somedata"}