Feat: Composable Subrouters and Routers#41
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Track number of routes explicitly instead of relying on NULL-terminated array iteration. Prepares for dynamic array migration. - Add route_count field to Router struct - Initialize to 0 in router creation - Increment when adding routes - Update loops to use route_count instead of NULL checks - Extract route matching into router_match function - Introduce Route struct
Add pluggable dispatcher interface for routing strategies: - Define Dispatcher with match, add_route, mount, free operations - Implement RegexRouterData with dynamic arrays - Create regex dispatcher with route flattening on mount - Add router_create_regex factory function - Add wrapper functions: router_add, router_mount, router_free - Migrate main.c to use dispatcher-based routing - Maintain backward compatibility with old router_match for now Enables composable routing and future dispatcher implementations.
- Fix regex_mount to properly handle regex patterns when mounting sub-routers. - Previously concatenated "/tests" + "^/test$" = "/tests^/test$" (invalid). - Now transforms "^/test$" with prefix "/tests" to "^/tests/test$". - Strip ^ and $ from child patterns before concatenation - Enables correct route flattening for composable routing
- created app/blog directory and initialized a router - the router was then mounted onto the main app It isnow possible to create many composable applications
- Add comprehensive routing system guide (docs/ROUTING.md) - Rename and update template system documentation - Remove template compiler (thc.c) in favor of external zc compiler - Clean up unused handlers and blog module - Update main.c to reflect routing changes
- Adds GitHub Actions workflow to auto-format C files on push/PR - Uses pre-commit with clang-format configured for Google style + custom rules - Removes need for developers to install LLVM or clang-format locally - Ensures consistent code style across the repository automatically
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Summary
Implements a composable, Express-style router with pluggable dispatch strategies. Uses dispatcher interface to separate routing logic from router API, enabling different implementations without changing user-facing code.
Key Changes
New Dispatcher Interface
Can match a route, add a route, mount a subrouter, free routes
Regex dispatcher with dynamic arrays and route flattening
Factory function to create the regex dispatcher router_create_regex()