How to stop routes from shadowing other routes?

[rawleyfowler]

I have the following routes:

$r->add( [ GET => '/summary' ] => 'get_annual_expense_summary' );
$r->add( [ GET => '/:expense_id' ] => 'get_expense' ); # called when /summary is called.

How can I stop /:expense_id from gobbling up requests to /summary?

Thanks!

[bbrtj]

Kelp has some tools to deal with this:

• if expense_id will have a known format (which summary does not meet), you can put a check on the placeholder: https://metacpan.org/pod/Kelp::Routes#check
• you can also make the framework match summary route earlier by reducing its order value: https://metacpan.org/dist/Kelp/view/lib/Kelp/Manual.pod#Route-order