[coldbox-5.1.4] question about how invalid events work

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I have a problem where I am struggling to capture an invalid event. Consider the following routes/handlers:

route( pattern="/product/:product/client/:client/reports/:reportGroup", target="client.reports.reportGroup.index", name="Client Reports" ).end(); route( pattern="/product/:product/client/:client/reports", target="client.reports", name="Client Reports" ).end(); route( pattern="/product/:product/client/:client", target="client.index", name="Client" ).end();

When I access /product/:product/client/:product/reports/ (with client and product values in lieu of placeholders) everything works as expected. If I try to access /product/:product/client/:client/report (“report” doesn’t exist), I fall back to the 3rd route listed, /product/:product/client/:client, which is not the desired behavior. Shouldn’t an invalid event be fired here, since “report” doesn’t exist as a handler, only “reports”?

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Actually, that would be the correct cascade of that route, since the pattern in your route was matched to the last item in the chain. Since Coldbox also supports name/value pairs in the URL, it would simply match up to the first route it encounters

You have two choices:

  1. handle the 404 in your /client/:client action
  2. Add strong typing to the :client ( Pattern Placeholders - ColdBox HMVC Documentation ) which will trigger the invalid event if the parameter typing isn’t matched