Echo.get("*") is responding to every route even when others are defined

[GrimBit1]

Can anyone tell me how to get a predefined route first then check the *

[aldas]

Could you modify this example to demonstrate your problem:

package main

import (
	"errors"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
	"log"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	e := echo.New()

	h := func(c echo.Context) error {
		log.Printf("handler is called: %v\n", c.Path())
		return c.JSON(http.StatusOK, c.Path())
	}

	e.GET("*", h)
	e.GET("/test", h)

	if err := e.Start(":8080"); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, http.ErrServerClosed) {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

[GrimBit1]

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	checkerror "server/checkError"
	connectdb "server/connectDB"
	"server/handler"

	"github.com/gofor-little/env"
	echo "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
)

func main() {
	err := env.Load(".env")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err.Error())
		return
	}

	userDB := connectdb.UserDB{Name: "Hi", DBP: nil}
	err = userDB.ConnectDB()
	defer func() {
		fmt.Println("DB disconnected")
		userDB.CloseDB()
	}()

	checkerror.Checkerror(err)
	e := echo.New()
	e.Static("/", "build")
	e.Use(middleware.Logger())
	e.Use(middleware.AddTrailingSlash())
	handler.Apihandler(e, userDB.DBP)

        // This will respond to endpoint where it should be static files
	e.Get("*",func(c echo.Context) error {
		return c.File("index.html")
	})
	e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))

}

[aldas]

Your problem is that

e.Static("/", "build")

and

	e.Get("*",func(c echo.Context) error {
		return c.File("index.html")
	})

are actually same route path and when exactly same path is added by e.Get it overrides path registered with e.Static

Do I understand correctly that you want to build SPA? where static assets are served from path that are not handler.Apihandler paths? If so I suggest using middleware.StaticWithConfig for that usecase.

Try this example:

func main() {
	e := echo.New()

	e.Use(middleware.Logger())
	e.Use(middleware.AddTrailingSlash())

	e.Use(middleware.StaticWithConfig(middleware.StaticConfig{
		Skipper: nil,
		// Root directory from where the static content is served.
		Root: "build",
		// Index file for serving a directory.
		// Optional. Default value "index.html".
		Index: "index.html",
		// Enable HTML5 mode by forwarding all not-found requests to root so that
		// SPA (single-page application) can handle the routing.
		HTML5:      true,
		Browse:     false,
		IgnoreBase: false,
		Filesystem: nil,
	}))

	api := e.Group("/api")
	api.GET("/users", func(c echo.Context) error {
		return c.String(http.StatusOK, fmt.Sprintf("users route called: %v", c.Path()))
	})

	if err := e.Start(":8080"); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, http.ErrServerClosed) {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

[GrimBit1]

Thanks Man, It Worked