Simplifying the use of regular expressions

[amitguptagwl]

Why

In current version of Stubmatic, we use regular expressions to match & catch HTTP request. Writing regular expression can be an easy task for a developer, but reading and understanding it later is complex.

What

To solve this we're planning to use named regular expressions. E.g.

\authorize\(admin|staff|user)

can be replaced with

\authorize\:role:

How

1. Create a set of regular expressions a project may need. Save them in a file

role : (admin|staff|user)

2. Load this file when the Stubmatic starts before loading the mappings
3. Replace each named regular expression with actual regular expression in mapping loaded into the memory.