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Regular expression route converter

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#857 opened on Aug 4, 2016

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Description

I have question about embedding regular expression in route object like it doing in flask.

Let's I show you example:

/user/<name:[A-Za-z0-9]+>
/article/<article_id:[0-9A-F]+>

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Could you have this or maybe a good idea porting Flask router to falcon system?

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Research direction
Investigate Falcon's current routing mechanism and implement regex pattern matching in route converters similar to Flask's syntax. Provide examples and tests.
Tech stack
python
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backend
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