feat(routeProvider): Add support to catch-all parameters in routes

This allows routeProvider to accept parameters that matches
substrings even when they contain slashes if they are prefixed
with an asterisk instead of a colon.
For example, routes like edit/color/:color/largecode/*largecode
will match with something like this
http://appdomain.com/edit/color/brown/largecode/code/with/slashs.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/ng/route.js b/src/ng/route.js
index 971caa1c..afdac3fb 100644
--- a/src/ng/route.js
+++ b/src/ng/route.js
@@ -23,9 +23,18 @@ function $RouteProvider(){
    *    `$location.path` will be updated to add or drop the trailing slash to exactly match the
    *    route definition.
    *
-   *    `path` can contain named groups starting with a colon (`:name`). All characters up to the
-   *    next slash are matched and stored in `$routeParams` under the given `name` when the route
-   *    matches.
+   *      * `path` can contain named groups starting with a colon (`:name`). All characters up
+   *        to the next slash are matched and stored in `$routeParams` under the given `name`
+   *        when the route matches.
+   *      * `path` can contain named groups starting with a star (`*name`). All characters are
+   *        eagerly stored in `$routeParams` under the given `name` when the route matches.
+   *
+   *    For example, routes like `/color/:color/largecode/*largecode/edit` will match
+   *    `/color/brown/largecode/code/with/slashs/edit` and extract:
+   *
+   *      * `color: brown`
+   *      * `largecode: code/with/slashs`.
+   *
    *
    * @param {Object} route Mapping information to be assigned to `$route.current` on route
    *    match.
@@ -341,12 +350,12 @@ function $RouteProvider(){
       //   regex only once and then reuse it
 
       // Escape regexp special characters.
-      when = '^' + when.replace(/[-\/\\^$*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, "\\$&") + '$';
+      when = '^' + when.replace(/[-\/\\^$:*+?.()|[\]{}]/g, "\\$&") + '$';
       var regex = '',
           params = [],
           dst = {};
 
-      var re = /:(\w+)/g,
+      var re = /\\([:*])(\w+)/g,
           paramMatch,
           lastMatchedIndex = 0;
 
@@ -354,8 +363,15 @@ function $RouteProvider(){
         // Find each :param in `when` and replace it with a capturing group.
         // Append all other sections of when unchanged.
         regex += when.slice(lastMatchedIndex, paramMatch.index);
-        regex += '([^\\/]*)';
-        params.push(paramMatch[1]);
+        switch(paramMatch[1]) {
+          case ':':
+            regex += '([^\\/]*)';
+            break;
+          case '*':
+            regex += '(.*)';
+            break;
+        }
+        params.push(paramMatch[2]);
         lastMatchedIndex = re.lastIndex;
       }
       // Append trailing path part.