I have been searching high and low for a solution to this, but to no avail. I am trying to prevent users from entering poorly formed URLs. Currently I have this regular expression in place:
^(http|https)\://.*$
This does a check to make sure the user is using http or https in the URL. However I need to go a step further and validate the structure of the URL.
For example this URL: http://mytest.com/?=test is clearly invalid as the parameter is not specified. All of the regular expressions that I've found on the web return valid when I use this URL.
I've been using this site to test the expressions that I've been finding.
Look I think the best solution for testing the URL as :
var url="http://mytest.com/?=test";
Make 2 steps :
1- test only URL as :
http://mytest.com/
use pattern :
var pattern1= "^(http:\/\/www.|https:\/\/www.|ftp:\/\/www.|www.){1}([0-9A-Za-z]+\.)([A-Za-z]){2,3}(\/)?";
2- split URL string by using pattern1 to get the URL query string and IF URL has Query string then make test on It again by using the following pattern :
var query=url.split(pattern1);
var q_str = query[1];
var pattern2 = "^(\?)?([0-9A-Za-z]+=[0-9A-Za-z]+(\&)?)+$";
Good Luck,
I believe the problem you are having comes from the fact that what is or is not a valid parameter from a query string is not universally defined. And specifically for your problem, the criteria for a valid query is still not well defined from your single example of what should fail.
To be precise, check this out RFC3986#3.4
Maybe you can make up a criteria for what should be an "acceptable" query string and from that you can get an answer. ;)
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I am trying to pass the first part of a django url to a view, so I can filter my results by the term in the url.
Looking at the documentation, it seems quite straightforward.
However, I have the following urls.py
url('<colcat>/collection/(?P<name>[\w\-]+)$', views.collection_detail, name='collection_detail'),
url('<colcat>/', views.collection_view, name='collection_view'),
In this case, I want to be able to go to /living and have living be passed to my view so that I can use it to filter by.
When trying this however, no matter what url I put it isn't being matched, and I get an error saying the address I put in could not be matched to any urls.
What am I missing?
<colcat> is not a valid regex. You need to use the same format as you have for name.
url('(?P<colcat>[\w\-]+)/collection/(?P<name>[\w\-]+)$', views.collection_detail, name='collection_detail'),
url('(?P<colcat>[\w\-]+)/$', views.collection_view, name='collection_view'),
Alternatively, use the new path form which will be much simpler:
path('<str:colcat>/collection/<str:name>', views.collection_detail, name='collection_detail'),
path('<str:colcat>/', views.collection_view, name='collection_view'),
I have this custom Regex statement to validate websites on my app. I have everything working correctly except one case.
If I use query params in my URL, it doesn't pass the regex.
Here is what I currently have:
pattern="^((https?|ftp|smtp):\/\/)?(www.)?[a-z0-9]+\.[a-z]+(\/[a-zA-Z0-9#]+\/?)*$"
Current Output: Fails on URLs such as http://google.com/hello?world=foo
Expected Output: Allow query params in the URL.
I just tried the following in my AJAX update:
[Server]/secTypes/Update
This maps to the following url in URLS.py:
url(r'^secTypes/Update/', equity.views.updateSecTypes, name='updateSecTypes'),
This doesn't resolve to the following function in my view.
But when I change the URL expression to:
url(r'^su/', equity.views.updateSecTypes, name='updateSecTypes')
It works fine.
What in the URL resolver is not getting accurately mapped? Is it the forward slash?
I think it has to do with something related to the regex so if someone understands this better can help me that would be appreciated.
From the url patterns in your comments, it looks like you had another matching pattern before the one in your question.
There are two simple solution for this.
Move that first pattern down. Change this:
url(r'^secTypes/', equity.views.getSecTypes, name='getSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypesAll/', equity.views.getSecTypesAll, name='getSecTypesAll'),
url(r'^secTypes/Update/', equity.views.updateSecTypes, name='updateSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Delete/', equity.views.deleteSecTypes, name='deleteSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Create/', equity.views.createSecTypes, name='createSecTypes'),
to this:
url(r'^secTypesAll/', equity.views.getSecTypesAll, name='getSecTypesAll'),
url(r'^secTypes/Update/', equity.views.updateSecTypes, name='updateSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Delete/', equity.views.deleteSecTypes, name='deleteSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Create/', equity.views.createSecTypes, name='createSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/', equity.views.getSecTypes, name='getSecTypes'),
The order matters when resolving URL patterns and if an earlier one matches, the following ones are not processed.
Both r'^secTypes/' and r'^secTypes/Update/' matches the string 'secTypes/Update/' so you need to be careful to put the more specific one first and the more general one afterwards.
Update the regex to match the end of the URL string by adding a $ like this:
url(r'^secTypes/$', equity.views.getSecTypes, name='getSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypesAll/$', equity.views.getSecTypesAll, name='getSecTypesAll'),
url(r'^secTypes/Update/$', equity.views.updateSecTypes, name='updateSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Delete/$', equity.views.deleteSecTypes, name='deleteSecTypes'),
url(r'^secTypes/Create/$', equity.views.createSecTypes, name='createSecTypes'),
This is the preferred solution since it would stop Django from matching a URL like secTypes/Update/foobar
However, if you have logic in the view that specifically uses the substring after the end of the URL pattern (i.e. foobar based on the above example), this wouldn't work.
I'm new to node and unable to create a simple route which will include regex as on of the parameter
// student.js - route file for route /student
app.get('/student/:/^[a-z0-9-]+$/', function(req,res){
res.send('student found');
});
when i hit localhost:3000/student/student-slug it says Cannot GET /student/student-slug
two more question
1) how to get param which is of regex, usually we can do this var _student = res.param.student_name but i'm unable to think for the regex
2) how to set optional param, let's say for pagination, route is like
/list/students/ will show list of last x student but /list/students/48 will offset that value to 48th row
this question may be duplicate but i'm unable to find answer
You need to encode the uri string before pass to request and decode it in your route handler.
Usage is very clear:
encodeURIComponent(str);
And for decoding use:
decodeURIComponent(str);
check the official documentation here
also do checkout this blog post on escape vs encode vs encodeURIComponent
I'd like to send any route that doesn't match an admin route, to my "event" controller. This seems to be a fairly common requirement and a cursory search throws up all sorts of similar questions.
The solution, as I understand, seems to be using a negative lookahead in the regex. So my attempt looks like this:
$route['(?!admin).*'] = "event";
..which works. Well, sort of. It does send any non-admin request to my "event" controller, but I need it to pass the actual string that was matched: so /my-new-event/ is routed to /event/my-new-event/
I tried:
$route['(?!admin).*'] = "event/$0";
$route['(?!admin).*'] = "event/$1";
$route['(?!admin)(.*)'] = "event/$0";
$route['(?!admin)(.*)'] = "event/$1";
... and a few other increasingly random and desperate permutations. All result in a 404 page.
What's the correct syntax for passing the matched string to the controller?
Thanks :)
I don't think you can do "negative routing".
But as routes do have an order : "routes will run in the order they are defined. Higher routes will always take precedence over lower ones." I would do my admin one first then anything else.
If I suppose your admin path is looking like "/admin/..." I would suggest :
$route['admin/(:any)'] = "admincontroller/$1";
$route['(:any)'] = "event/$1";