Exception Handling Configuration Logging Configuration Email Configuration Session Configuration Routing configuration Additional Class Paths Plugin, View Template and Locale Paths Inflection Configuration Disabling Generic Tables Routing Quick Tour Connecting Routes Route Elements Reserved Route Elements Configuring Route Options Passing Parameters to Action Using Named Routes Prefix Routing Creating Links to to Prefix Routes Plugin Routing Creating Links to Plugin Routes SEO-Friendly Routing Matching Specific HTTP Methods Matching Specific Hostnames Routing File Extensions Connecting Scoped Middleware Grouping

Exception Handling Configuration Logging Configuration Email Configuration Session Configuration Routing configuration Additional Class Paths Plugin, View Template and Locale Paths Inflection Configuration Disabling Generic Tables Routing RouterBuilder Quick Tour Connecting Routes Route Elements Reserved Route Elements Configuring Route Options Passing Parameters to Action Using Path Routing Using Named Routes Routes Prefix Routing Creating Links to Prefix Routes Plugin Routing Creating Links to Plugin Routes SEO-Friendly Routing Matching Specific HTTP Methods Matching Specific Hostnames Routing File Extensions

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 8 Routing 231 Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middleware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 RESTful Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Redirect Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Entity Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Exception Handling Configuration Logging Configuration Email Configuration Session Configuration Routing configuration Additional Class Paths Plugin, View Template and Locale Paths Inflection Configuration Disabling Generic Tables Routing RouterBuilder Quick Tour Connecting Routes Route Elements Reserved Route Elements Configuring Route Options Passing Parameters to Action Using Path Routing Using Named Routes Routes Prefix Routing Creating Links to Prefix Routes Plugin Routing Creating Links to Plugin Routes SEO-Friendly Routing Matching Specific HTTP Methods Matching Specific Hostnames Routing File Extensions

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 8 Routing 133 Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 RESTful Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Redirect Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Entity Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 8 Routing 201 Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 RESTful Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Redirect Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Entity Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

API Class Req/Resp Cookies Status Codes Error Handling Redirection Middleware Components Hooks Routing Utilities Testing Changelogs 1.0.0 0.3.0 0.2.0 Created using Sphinx 1.3.5. index modules | next Falcon community did some experimenting with routing both singleton and collection-based operations to the same Python class, but it turned out to make routing definitions more complicated and less intuitive to stripping a trailing slashes, if any, Falcon will convert empty paths to “/”. Note also that routing is also normalized, so adding a route for “/foo/bar” also implicitly adds a route for “/foo/bar/”

Class Request & Response Cookies Status Codes Error Handling Media Redirection Middleware Hooks Routing Utilities Testing Community Guide Get Help Contribute to Falcon FAQ Changelogs 1.4.1 1.4.0 1 tests Serving Images Introducing Hooks Error Handling What Now? FAQ Design Philosophy Performance Routing Extensibility Request Handling Response Handling Misc. Introduction Perfection is finally attained edge cases in large-scale deployments. Features Highly-optimized, extensible code base Intuitive routing via URI templates and REST-inspired resource classes Easy access to headers and bodies through request

and Functions API Class Req/Resp Cookies Status Codes Error Handling Middleware Components Hooks Routing Utilities Changelogs 0.3.0 0.2.0 Created using Sphinx 1.2.3. index modules | next | previous Falcon community did some experimenting with routing both singleton and collection-based operations to the same Python class, but it turned out to make routing definitions more complicated and less intuitive to stripping a trailing slashes, if any, Falcon will convert empty paths to “/”. Note also that routing is also normalized, so adding a route for “/foo/bar” also implicitly adds a route for “/foo/bar/”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 5.4.13 Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 5 reliance on magic globals for routing and state management • Stable interfaces with an emphasis on backwards-compatibility • Simple API modeling through centralized RESTful routing • Highly-optimized, extensible reliance on magic globals for routing and state management • Stable interfaces with an emphasis on backwards-compatibility • Simple API modeling through centralized RESTful routing • Highly-optimized, extensible