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 came up with a sort of hacky way. I define the following class:

class UrlConf(object):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.confs = []
        for arg in args:
            if isinstance(arg, webapp2.Route):
                slash_route = webapp2.Route(arg.template + '/', arg.handler)
                self.confs += [arg, slash_route]

    def __iter__(self):
        for route in self.confs:
            yield route

Then I set up my routes like the following:

MIRROR_URLS = list(UrlConf(
    Route('/path/to/stuff', handler=StuffHandler, name='stuff.page'),
    Route('/path/to/more/stuff', handler= MoreStuffHandler, name='more.stuff.page')
))

If you do choose to go this route, you can obviously improve upon it to be more flexible with other types of BaseRoute objects.