From 5ff481952db53ac3c9e7695d6146aa6ec0e937b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Volodymyr Maksymiv <vmaksymiv@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 11:16:17 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] add UUID support (#1241)

---
 sanic/router.py      |  3 +++
 tests/test_routes.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sanic/router.py b/sanic/router.py
index 8b3fd3dc..2864bf84 100644
--- a/sanic/router.py
+++ b/sanic/router.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import re
+import uuid
 from collections import defaultdict, namedtuple
 from collections.abc import Iterable
 from functools import lru_cache
@@ -18,6 +19,8 @@ REGEX_TYPES = {
     'number': (float, r'[0-9\\.]+'),
     'alpha': (str, r'[A-Za-z]+'),
     'path': (str, r'[^/].*?'),
+    'uuid': (uuid.UUID, r'[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-'
+             r'[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}-[A-Fa-f0-9]{12}')
 }
 
 ROUTER_CACHE_SIZE = 1024
diff --git a/tests/test_routes.py b/tests/test_routes.py
index ed35ea48..146db97c 100644
--- a/tests/test_routes.py
+++ b/tests/test_routes.py
@@ -422,6 +422,28 @@ def test_dynamic_route_regex():
     assert response.status == 200
 
 
+def test_dynamic_route_uuid():
+    import uuid
+    app = Sanic('test_dynamic_route_uuid')
+
+    results = []
+
+    @app.route('/quirky/<unique_id:uuid>')
+    async def handler(request, unique_id):
+        results.append(unique_id)
+        return text('OK')
+
+    request, response = app.test_client.get('/quirky/123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426655440000')
+    assert response.text == 'OK'
+    assert type(results[0]) is uuid.UUID
+
+    request, response = app.test_client.get('/quirky/{}'.format(uuid.uuid4()))
+    assert response.status == 200
+
+    request, response = app.test_client.get('/quirky/non-existing')
+    assert response.status == 404
+
+
 def test_dynamic_route_path():
     app = Sanic('test_dynamic_route_path')