Wt

Hi all,

I am investigating the Wt framework for supporting HTTP REST-like web services. The services will not be called by the browser but by a dedicated client.

So far, I've figured out that static web services can be offered with the following idiom:

Wt::WServer server(argv_[0]);

server.addResource(some_http_handler_ptr, "/api/v1/some_resource");

if (server.start()) {

Wt::WServer::waitForShutdown();

server.stop();

}

But, my question is: can I support throwing a bunch of URLs (e.g., a regular expression like "api/v1/some_resource/*") into the same handler? This could be very useful for supporting URL navigation and having http handler hierarchies. What I've only been able to do is having a specific URLs bound to a specific handler.

I've checked the internal path API of Wt, but it seems to be targeted towards browsing a web page with a browser (Wt::WAnchor is a link on a web page) and not the kind of application I am looking at.

Would greatly appreciate it anyone could offer some insight on this.

Thanks,

Periklis