djurl

Djurl is an attempt at providing Django URL dispatching for node.js.

• Simple action dispatching
• Familiar to Django users
• Supports Python regex named capture groups (e.g. (?P<groupname>.*?))

URL dispatching is basic:

var djurl = require("djurl");

/* indexAction and fooAction functions */

/* Define patterns */
var patterns = djurl.urlpatterns([
    ["^/$", indexAction, "index"],
    ["^/foo/(?P<action>\\w+)/$", fooAction],
]);

http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    djurl.dispatch(patterns, req, res); /* url processing starts here */
}).listen(8080);

urlpatterns accepts an array of pattern arrays with the following format:

• path - String containing path to compile to RegExp
• action - Function to dispatch on matching path
• name (Optional) - String containing named handle to url pattern

Actions should accept the following arguments:

• request - Node request object
• response - Node response handle
• path - Object containing path info
• name - String containing path name defined in urlpatterns

• Make sure Regex character classes are escaped properly: \\w+ instead of \w+

• Better 404 handling
• Robustness
• Performance
• Extend Node request object?

The MIT License

Copyright © 2011 Chris Bennett [email protected]

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