Slim 3 - Placeholders in routes are not working

1

Hello!

Since my newest projekt with Slim3 I went into troubles with the routes. I try to explain by example testing routes:

$app->get(’/test/{hallo}’, function ($request, $response, $args) use ($app) {
print “test ok!”;
exit;
});

$app->post(’/test/{hallo}’, function ($request, $response, $args) use ($app) {
print “test ok!”;
exit;
});

$app->post(’/test’, function ($request, $response, $args) use ($app) {
print “test ok!”;
exit;
});

The routes
GET /test/1234
POST /test
are working as expected.

But for
POST /test/1234
I get: 405 Method not allowed. Must be one of: GET

I’m using latest Slim 3 and testing with Postman

What the hell am I doing wrong?
TIA for any help!
Regards from Austria

2

Try to move the $app->post(’/test/{hallo}’ route above the $app->get(’/test/{hallo}’ route.

3

same problem: 405 Method not allowed. Must be one of: GET

4

I have testet your routes with Slim 4 (not Slim 3) and everything works.
Maybe you try to upgrade to Slim 4?

5

slim 4 is no option because there are about 5 REST API’s which are running with slim 3 for this company, so they won’t change to a different system.

I haven’t had this problem with the existing 5 API’s. (Biggest one hast about 280 routes.)

The only difference here is: I’m using current Version of Slim and installed all with composer and my project with GIT. The other ones was more like copy & paste sources, and than rewrite the routes and functions.

6

For fun I also tried your routes in Slim 3 and it works too.

$app->get('/test/{hallo}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
    print "test ok! 1";
    exit;
});

$app->post('/test/{hallo}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
    print "test ok! 2";
    exit;
});

$app->post('/test', function ($request, $response, $args) {
    print "test ok! 3";
    exit;
});

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7

seem’s like I’ll get one step back and just copy the sources from another working api, and replacing there routes.
something might be broken…

8

I’ve found the reason!
The regex for the placeholders doesn’t work like normal regex.
Following route caused the problems:
$app->post(’/buckets/{bucket_name:[a-Z0-9]+}’,

a-Z seems to break the method were this regex is used. Switched to
$app->post(’/buckets/{bucket_name:[a-zA-Z0-9]+}’,
and everything is fine now.

That cost me a lot of time :frowning:

9

Yes, the placeholder regex is case sensitive.