include url for default routes within match

[alexanderknapstein]

Dear @jthoms1 ,

we make heavily use of the route-switch but not only for not-found-pages, but for dynamic loaded content without assigning every route to a specific component. So in our case it would be helfpul to include the current "match" within the match object.

example:

<stencil-router>
    <stencil-route-switch>
        <stencil-route url='/home' component='il-home' title='home'></stencil-route>
        <stencil-route component='site-loader' title='site'></stencil-route>
    </stencil-route-switch>
</stencil-router>

the match result (@prop() match: MatchResults;) for all default routes (e.g. /some/url) looks like this:

{path: "/", url: "/", isExact: true, params: {…}}

which is not helpful in a fallback case to load any dynamic data. With my suggestion the match result will contain the current url, which can be consumed within the route component:

{path: "/some/url", url: "/some/url", isExact: true, params: {…}}

Would be cool, if you could merge that.
Thanx /Alex

[alexanderknapstein]

Any chance of merging this?

[DominicBoettger]

until merge it's available as @inspirationlabs/router

[bitflower]

Can you elaborate a bit more on the use case? Does it deal with nested / child routes requiring to be setup with full absolute paths? I have the use case that I dynamically build nested child routes and would love the created children to „inherit“ their route from the parent.

[DominicBoettger]

added compat to stencil one

[DominicBoettger]

@bitflower It's not adding such a feature. It makes it just easier to get the current match when using pages which are from top to bottom dynamic. In our case they are driven by a CMS backend and there is no real routing logic except a default match rule in stencil and we validate against the backend as soon as the current route changes and load the data from the backend.