add path template case-sensitive example

examples/hello/restful-hello-world.go

@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ func main() {
 	ws := new(restful.WebService)
 	ws.Route(ws.GET("/hello").To(hello))
 	restful.Add(ws)
-	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
+
+	// DO NOT wrap http.ListenAndServe with log.Fatal in production
+	// or you won't be able to drain in-flight request gracefully, even you handle sigterm
+	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)) 
 }
 
 func hello(req *restful.Request, resp *restful.Response) {

examples/path-case-sensitive/case-sensitive.go

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+
+	restful "github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3"
+)
+
+// This example shows how to handle different casing of path template.
+//
+// GET http://localhost:8080/hola/Juan
+// GET http://localhost:8080/HOLA/Juan
+// GET http://localhost:8080/Hola/Juan
+
+func main() {
+	ws := new(restful.WebService)
+
+	// hola is path template, to accept different casing of hola, we use regex matching with syntax {name:regex}
+	// - {: is nesserary to trigger the regex matching.
+	// - (?i) is to make the regex case-insensitive.
+	// it seems solve the issue, but there is a issue you might hit: https://github.com/emicklei/go-restful/issues/545
+	// to avoid partial matching, another regex pattern
+	// - ^$ is needed to match the whole route token.
+	ws.Route(ws.GET("/{:(?i)^hola$}/{name:*}").To(hola))
+	restful.Add(ws)
+	log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil))
+}
+
+func hola(req *restful.Request, resp *restful.Response) {
+	io.WriteString(resp, "hola "+req.PathParameter("name"))
+}

examples/path-case-sensitive/go.mod

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module github.com/emicklei/go-restful/examples/pathtemplatecasing
+
+go 1.14
+
+require github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3 v3.12.0

examples/path-case-sensitive/go.sum

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3 v3.12.0 h1:y2DdzBAURM29NFF94q6RaY4vjIH1rtwDapwQtU84iWk=
+github.com/emicklei/go-restful/v3 v3.12.0/go.mod h1:6n3XBCmQQb25CM2LCACGz8ukIrRry+4bhvbpWn3mrbc=

examples/path-case-sensitive/test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+GET http://localhost:8080/hola/Juan
+GET http://localhost:8080/HOLA/Juan
+GET http://localhost:8080/Hola/Juan