Pathmux is a package that implements an effective tree lookup with wildcard matching. It is a fork of the awesome httptreemux. This fork makes visible the interface of the internal tree lookup implementation of the original httptreemux package, and with the HTTP-related wrapper code stripped away.
In addition to having the original httptreemux logic, pathmux offers one small feature: backtracking. This means that when a path is matched, it is possible to instruct the lookup not to return the found object when other, custom conditions are not met, but instead continue the lookup by backtracking from the current point in the tree.
Pathmux is used by Skipper, an extensible HTTP routing server used in production at Zalando.
Almost never, except when:
- you want to store a large number of custom objects in an effective lookup tree, keyed by path values
- you want to use the backtracking feature to refine the evaluation of wildcard matching with custom logic
go get github.com/zalando/pathmux
Pathmux is 'go get compatible'. The master head is always stable (at least by intent), and it doesn't use any vendoring itself. However, we strongly recommend that you use vendoring in the final, importing, executable package.
You can find detailed package documentation here.
While it is enough to use go get to import the package, when modifying the code, it is worth cherry-picking from the tasks in the provided simple Makefile.
See our detailed contribution guidelines. If you plan on contributing to the current repository, please make sure:
- to run the precommit checks:
make precommit
Please fix all reported errors and please make sure that the overall test coverage is not decreased. (Please feel free to provide tests for the missing spots :))
- compare the performance of the new version to the current master, and avoid degradations:
make bench
(Comparison currently can happen only by running the same make bench on the master branch. Automating the comparison would be a nice contribution.)
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