Get route definition in middleware

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What you want is req.route.path.

For example:

app.get('/user/:id?', function(req, res){
  console.log(req.route);
});

// outputs something like

{ path: '/user/:id?',
  method: 'get',
  callbacks: [ [Function] ],
  keys: [ { name: 'id', optional: true } ],
  regexp: /^\/user(?:\/([^\/]+?))?\/?$/i,
  params: [ id: '12' ] }

http://expressjs.com/api.html#req.route

EDIT:

As explained in the comments, getting req.route in a middleware is difficult/hacky. The router middleware is the one that populates the req.route object, and it probably is in a lower level than the middleware you’re developing.

This way, getting req.route is only possible if you hook into the router middleware to parse the req for you before it’s executed by Express itself.

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