From 409f83ca66e28eca31d68801996007119c90d68f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gerasimos (Makis) Maropoulos" <kataras2006@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 20:11:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] :information_source: add mvc 'ByWildcard' example as
 requested at #1459

Although, we already had a usage of this as a test at mvc/controller_test.go#testControllerRelPathFromFunc


Former-commit-id: 66343933aa86750615ab89767f149f6636d03be7
---
 _examples/README.md                  |  2 ++
 _examples/mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 _examples/mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go

diff --git a/_examples/README.md b/_examples/README.md
index 7c5aff1b..a5163d31 100644
--- a/_examples/README.md
+++ b/_examples/README.md
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ Navigate through examples for a better understanding.
 ### MVC
 
 - [Hello world](mvc/hello-world/main.go)
+- [Basic](mvc/basic/main.go)
+- [Basic: wildcard](mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go) **NEW**
 - [Regexp](mvc/regexp/main.go)
 - [Session Controller](mvc/session-controller/main.go)
 - [Overview - Plus Repository and Service layers](mvc/overview)
diff --git a/_examples/mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go b/_examples/mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..915d3e3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_examples/mvc/basic/wildcard/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12"
+	"github.com/kataras/iris/v12/mvc"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	app := iris.New()
+	usersRouter := app.Party("/users")
+	mvc.New(usersRouter).Handle(new(myController))
+	// Same as:
+	// usersRouter.Get("/{p:path}", func(ctx iris.Context) {
+	// 	wildcardPathParameter := ctx.Params().Get("p")
+	// 	ctx.JSON(response{
+	// 		Message: "The path parameter is: " + wildcardPathParameter,
+	// 	})
+	// })
+
+	/*
+		curl --location --request GET 'http://localhost:8080/users/path_segment_1/path_segment_2'
+
+		Expected Output:
+		{
+		  "message": "The wildcard is: path_segment_1/path_segment_2"
+		}
+	*/
+	app.Listen(":8080")
+}
+
+type myController struct{}
+
+type response struct {
+	Message string `json:"message"`
+}
+
+func (c *myController) GetByWildcard(wildcardPathParameter string) response {
+	return response{
+		Message: "The path parameter is: " + wildcardPathParameter,
+	}
+}