Salvo Routing

Salvo treats path, method, and custom conditions uniformly as filters. Routers are composable (push), reusable across multiple mount points, and share middleware with handlers via hoop().

Path parameters

Salvo uses {name} syntax (since v0.76; the older <name> form is removed).

Router::with_path("users").get(list_users)            // static
Router::with_path("users/{id}").get(show_user)        // basic param
Router::with_path("users/{id:num}").get(show_user)    // typed: num, i32, i64, u32, u64
Router::with_path(r"users/{id|\d+}").get(show_user)   // regex
Router::with_path("files/{*rest}").get(serve_file)    // single segment wildcard
Router::with_path("static/{**path}").get(serve_static) // multi-segment wildcard

Access in a handler via req.param::<T>("name") which returns Option<T>:

#[handler]
async fn show_user(req: &mut Request) -> String {
    let id: i64 = req.param("id").unwrap();
    format!("User ID: {id}")
}

Wildcards

• {*} / {*name} — matches a single path segment
• {**} / {**name} — matches all remaining segments (including slashes)

HTTP methods

Router::new()
    .get(h).post(h).put(h).patch(h).delete(h).head(h).options(h);

Each method call creates a child router filtered to that method. goal(h) sets the handler without a method filter.

Nesting with push()

let router = Router::with_path("api/v1")
    .push(
        Router::with_path("users")
            .get(list_users)
            .post(create_user)
            .push(
                Router::with_path("{id}")
                    .get(show_user)
                    .patch(update_user)
                    .delete(delete_user)
            )
    )
    .push(Router::with_path("posts").get(list_posts).post(create_post));

Route composition

Routers are values — extract reusable subtrees into functions and mount them under different prefixes:

fn user_routes() -> Router {
    Router::with_path("users")
        .get(list_users)
        .post(create_user)
        .push(Router::with_path("{id}").get(get_user).delete(delete_user))
}

let router = Router::new()
    .push(Router::with_path("api/v1").push(user_routes()))
    .push(Router::with_path("api/v2").push(user_routes()));

Middleware via hoop()

hoop() attaches middleware. It applies to the current router and all descendants, only when the filter chain matches:

let router = Router::new()
    .hoop(logger)                             // global
    .push(
        Router::with_path("api")
            .hoop(auth_check)                 // only /api/**
            .push(Router::with_path("users").get(list_users))
    );

Use hoop_when(handler, |req, depot| bool) for conditional middleware.

Custom filters

For conditional matching that does not consume a path segment, use filter_fn:

Router::with_path("admin")
    .filter_fn(|req, _state| req.header::<String>("x-admin-key").is_some())
    .get(admin_handler);

For a fully custom Filter, implement the async trait (salvo::routing::filters::Filter). The filter method takes &mut PathState; to match and consume a segment you must also advance state.cursor and insert into state.params. Prefer typed/regex path params (e.g. {id:num}, {id|\d+}) for common cases — they handle all of this correctly.

Built-in filter helpers live in salvo::routing::filters: path(), get(), post(), host(), port(), scheme(). Combine with .and(...) / .or(...).

Redirects

use salvo::prelude::*;

#[handler]
async fn perm(res: &mut Response) { res.render(Redirect::permanent("/new")); }
#[handler]
async fn temp(res: &mut Response) { res.render(Redirect::found("/tmp")); }
#[handler]
async fn other(res: &mut Response) { res.render(Redirect::see_other("/page")); }

Gotchas

• Path filters match segment-by-segment; nested with_path("api/v1") then with_path("users") matches api/v1/users, not users alone.
• Param names must be unique within a single path. {id} and {id} in the same path will clash.
• Router::new().path("api") mutates in place; Router::with_path("api") constructs fresh. Use the latter to start a branch.

Related Skills

• salvo-basic-app: Basic application setup and handler patterns
• salvo-path-syntax: Path parameter syntax guide and migration
• salvo-middleware: Attach middleware to routes with hoop()