How do I make a trailing slash optional with webapp2?

Question

I\'m using the new webapp2 (now the default webapp in 1.6), and I haven\'t been able to figure out how to make the trailing slash optional in code like this:

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Answer 1

I was looking for a way to make the trailling slash on the root of a PathPrefixRoute block optional.

If you have, say:

from webapp2_extras.routes import RedirectRoute, PathPrefixRoute

from webapp2 import Route

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
  PathPrefixRoute('admin', [
      RedirectRoute('/', handler='DashboardHandler', name='admin-dashboard', strict_slash=True),
      RedirectRoute('/sample-page/', handler='SamplePageHandler', name='sample-page', strict_slash=True),
  ]),
])

You will be able to access /admin/, but not /admin.

Since I couldn't find any better solution, I've added a redirect_to_name to an extra route, like:

from webapp2_extras.routes import RedirectRoute, PathPrefixRoute

from webapp2 import Route

app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([
  Route('admin', handler='DashboardHandler', name='admin-dashboard'),
  PathPrefixRoute('admin', [
      RedirectRoute('/', redirect_to_name='admin-dashboard'),
      RedirectRoute('/sample-page/', handler='SamplePageHandler', name='sample-page', strict_slash=True),
  ]),
])

I'm interested in better solutions to this problem.

Should I go for Stun's solution and simply not use RedirectRoute?