Make trailing slash optional

[aldendaniels]

Desired behavior:

1. Always allow an optional trailing slash
2. Never add an optional trailing slash when generating links via makePath

I think this behavior is pretty standard.

Today (as of v0.12.9) makePath appends a trailing slash if a trailing slash is optionally allowed.

Food for thought (tangential): It would be nice to support optional trailing slashes automatically without the need to add a /? to all routes.

[agundermann]

For me, the desired behavior would be

1. Force trailing slash for routes (via redirect), but only for routes with children/DefaultRoutes ("directories")
2. Always add trailing slash to links to those routes

So I don't think changing the default behavior is the ideal solution. But it would be nice to have some more control over this.

[jkimbo]

+1

[romeovs]

+1

[mikepro4]

+1

[Frikki]

This is really an important issue. However, since the issue hasn’t been resolved, what is the workaround?

[aronwoost]

+1

[super-cache-money]

+1

[mbektimirov]

Yep, very annoying issue. Path must be handled with and without trailing slash by default as it is not classic REST router.

[dignifiedquire]

@ryanflorence @mjackson will this be addressed/changed in #1158? Does it make sense to implement it on the current code base, or should I rather start based on the code in #1158 ?

[mjackson]

@dignifiedquire This is already fixed in #1158