reitit/doc/routing/route_metadata.md
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# Route meta-data
Routes can have arbitrary meta-data. For nested routes, the meta-data is accumulated from root towards leafs using [meta-merge](https://github.com/weavejester/meta-merge).
A router based on nested route tree:
```clj
(def router
(reitit/router
["/api" {:interceptors [::api]}
["/ping" ::ping]
["/admin" {:roles #{:admin}}
["/users" ::users]
["/db" {:interceptors [::db]
:roles ^:replace #{:db-admin}}
["/:db" {:parameters {:db String}}
["/drop" ::drop-db]
["/stats" ::db-stats]]]]]))
```
Resolved route tree:
```clj
(reitit/routes router)
; [["/api/ping" {:interceptors [::api]
; :name ::ping}]
; ["/api/admin/users" {:interceptors [::api]
; :roles #{:admin}
; :name ::users}]
; ["/api/admin/db/:db/drop" {:interceptors [::api ::db]
; :roles #{:db-admin}
; :parameters {:db String}
; :name ::drop-db}]
; ["/api/admin/db/:db/stats" {:interceptors [::api ::db]
; :roles #{:db-admin}
; :parameters {:db String}
; :name ::db-stats}]]
```
Path-based routing:
```clj
(reitit/match-by-path router "/api/admin/users")
; #Match{:template "/api/admin/users"
; :meta {:interceptors [::api]
; :roles #{:admin}
; :name ::users}
; :result nil
; :params {}
; :path "/api/admin/users"}
```
On match, route meta-data is returned and can interpreted by the application.
Routers also support meta-data compilation enabling things like fast [Ring](https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring) or [Pedestal](http://pedestal.io/) -style handlers. Compilation results are found under `:result` in the match. See [configuring routers](#configuring-routers) for details.