Investigation for the feasability of having a pluggable HTTP router

[mantzas]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

We are using httprouter hardcoded in our codebase. But it has limitations and we could investigate to make the HTTP router part pluggable.
We can provide after this a way to let the end-user decide which one they want to support.

[fpapadopou]

Some more details about the current http router's limitations:
The httprouter is very strict when interpreting route path segments. Consider the following

    router.GET("/user/:id_user", nil)
    router.GET("/user/me/:profile", nil)

In the above case, the me static route segment conflicts with the :id_user wildcard, which will result in a a panic error.

The issue has been reported here and will be addressed in version 2 of the httprouter library. Still, "lenient" interpretation of route segments will be an optional feature.

In the meantime, if you happen have the above issue, you can try sth like this.

[mantzas]

HTTP v2 support this OOTB.