Send multiple paths to one route without redirect function

Question

I am updating my website to a Meteor application with iron-router, and need to change my urls. The old scheme had capitalized page names like this:

mysite.com/Contact

but I've changed everything to be lowercase:

mysite.com/contact

That contact route isn't complicated, so it's set up like this:

this.route('contact');

but I want the /Contact url to be redirected. I know I could just do this:

this.route('Contact', {
    onBeforeAction: function() {
        Router.go('contact');
    }
});

but it's so much messier. I'd prefer to do something like this:

this.route('contact', {
    path: ['/contact', '/Contact']
});

where the route simply is mapped to multiple paths.

Is there a feature like this? Or is my onBeforeAction the best I'm going to get?

Answer 1

https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/blob/devel/DOCS.md#dynamic-path-segments

You can use a Regular Expression for your path segment (see the last example in the Dynamic Path Segments link).

Your path would be:

this.route('contact', {
    path: /contact/i
});

Where the 'i' after the forward-slash is the regular expression modifier to be case insensitive allowing you to accept any variation of 'contact' (whether cOntact, Contact, or conTACT).

See http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_regexp_i.asp for details on the RegEx modifier.