Add custom URL convertor register #1437
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Custom URL Convertor
Currently, we don't have a way to create URL convertors, meaning that our users can only match the default types. Those are:
starlette/starlette/convertors.py
Lines 75 to 81 in 2b54f42
To be fair, there's a way: adding a
key, value
pair on theCONVERTOR_TYPES
dictionary. That's not available on Starlette's public API, or documented.The idea of this PR is to document and introduce a public API that can be used to create custom URL convertors.
How does Django and Flask handle this?
Both of them have a way to register custom URL convertors. You can find the way Django makes it possible here, and for Flask here.
Other
Recently, there was a PR to introduce time related convertors on #1398, and I think we should follow the path this PR proposes here, and not creating more convertors on Starlette itself.
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