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Thank you for your feedback. I checked how rails behaves - if the part of the url which is supposed to be caught by the globbing parameter is missing, the route is not matched at all.
In other words, the route "/foo/*bar" is not going to match "/foo" - only "/foo/bar".
If our current behavior turns out to be inconvenient, we are probably going to update our implementation to match this behavior.
Petyo
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I might summarize my complete knowledge about Rails in 5 seconds. So I actually do not care, whether Kendo and Rails behave identical. For me it would be more important that Kendo shows a consistent behaviour. In this case, missing optional and missing globbing parameters should behave the same.
I understand that in Rails a missing globbing parameters makes the route not fire at all. What happens in Rails, if an optional parameter is missing?
Michael G. Schneider
If optional parameters are missing, rails does not put them in the parameters hash property - the equivalent of being undefined, I guess.
As I already mentioned, we are most probably going to strife for implementing the same behavior, as the rails framework was the first (to my knowledge) to introduce the routing conventions, adopted by other frameworks afterwards.
Once again, thank you for your feedback.
Petyo
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