How to Allow a "/" Character in a Route Parameter
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How to Allow a "/" Character in a Route Parameter
Sometimes, you need to compose URLs with parameters that can contain a slash
/. For example, consider the /share/{token} route. If the token
value contains a / character this route won't match. This is because Symfony
uses this character as separator between route parts.
This article explains how you can modify a route definition so that placeholders
can contain the / character too.
Configure the Route
By default, the Symfony Routing component requires that the parameters match
the following regular expression: [^/]+. This means that all characters are
allowed except /.
You must explicitly allow / to be part of your placeholder by specifying
a more permissive regular expression for it:
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use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;
class DefaultController
{
/**
* @Route("/share/{token}", name="share", requirements={"token"=".+"})
*/
public function shareAction($token)
{
// ...
}
}That's it! Now, the {token} parameter can contain the / character.
Note
If the route includes the special {_format} placeholder, you shouldn't
use the .+ requirement for the parameters that allow slashes. For example,
if the pattern is /share/{token}.{_format} and {token} allows any
character, the /share/foo/bar.json URL will consider foo/bar.json
as the token and the format will be empty. This can be solved by replacing the
.+ requirement by [^.]+ to allow any character except dots.
Note
If the route defines several placeholders and you apply this permissive
regular expression to all of them, the results won't be the expected. For
example, if the route definition is /share/{path}/{token} and both
path and token accept /, then path will contain its contents
and the token, and token will be empty.
