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Path templating not supported

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
flask, openapi, python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Locate the library's path-matching entry point and its related tests, then trace how Flask route patterns are compared with OpenAPI paths. Verify the behavior using a Flask route such as /users/<user_id> and the corresponding /users/{user_id} schema path; done means the request matches and existing path-matching tests still pass.

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Description

help wanted kind/enhancement kind/missing-implementation

Hi,

Unfortunately path templates are not supported in this library; For example, if a PUT request is made for a Flask view which has a pattern of, say, /users/<user_id> and I have a /users/{user_id} path defined in my OpenAPI 3 schema, then it doesn't match the path because of the difference between "lesser-than/greater-than" bracers from Flask and the curly bracers from OpenAPI 3.

Please let me know if you need help with implementing this fix, in which case I can send a pull request.

Thanks,
Diogo

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