Url Routes RegEx or patterns for matching

[mpwoodward]

(Moved from http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii/ticket/272)

This is sort of a trivial enhancement request as I'm not certain if it's practical, but I was thinking earlier about a specific engineering solution and this came to mind.

I've heard of people creating custom event names like:

/index.cfm/machine.widget.add.1245/

Now that event handler does not exist in the framework so they use the exception plugin point to take that pseudo event and map that to a "generic" event named machine.add with event args type = widget and id = 1245. I was thinking it might be cool to allow people to map URL routes RegEx? or patterns to a "generic" event handler.

It is not that the plugin exception point is bad way to deal with this, but I was wondering if this would be more attractive way to do this.

Considering there is no community need yet and this is a completely theoretical enhancement request on my part, I'm going to put this is in uncategorized milestone.