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D Web Development

You're reading from   D Web Development Leverage the power of D and the vibe.d framework to develop web applications that are incredibly fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288890
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kai Nacke Kai Nacke
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Your First Web Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Templates for Your Web Pages 3. Get Interactive – Forms and Flow Control 4. Easy Forms with the Web Framework 5. Accessing a Database 6. Using the REST Interface 7. The vibe.d Internals 8. Using vibe.d with a GUI Client 9. Power Your Application with vibe.d Extensions Index

A closer look at route matching


One of the key parts is the URLRouter class. You use this class to find a matching route and then run the action associated with this route. Matching follows these rules:

  • Routes are compared in the order that they are initially specified.

  • If a route matches, then the associate handler is executed.

  • Matching stops if a handler writes a response.

  • If no matching route is found, then the request is not handled. A 404 error is generated.

You need to specify the HTTP method and the route to match. The match() method takes the HTTP method, the match string, and the action callback as a parameter. The get(), post(), put(), delete_(), and patch() methods take only the match string and the action callback as a parameter and match the HTTP method of the same name. If you do not want to consider the HTTP method, then you use the any() method to add a match string. This can be useful if you want to log a request or implement some special route handling that is valid for all...

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