match_request() — flask Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the match_request() function in ctx.py from the flask codebase.

Function python ApplicationCore Scaffolding called by 1

Entity Profile

ApplicationCore→ Scaffolding→ match_request() — flask Function Reference

Dependency Diagram

graph TD
  5f896cf4_e98f_e9ed_264e_d22af8ed8eec["match_request()"]
  86817dcd_97b5_9a9f_aee8_5fa78b4cecc9["AppContext"]
  5f896cf4_e98f_e9ed_264e_d22af8ed8eec -->|defined in| 86817dcd_97b5_9a9f_aee8_5fa78b4cecc9
  519276e3_fb95_dd4f_f8b0_6550aeb8f81b["push()"]
  519276e3_fb95_dd4f_f8b0_6550aeb8f81b -->|calls| 5f896cf4_e98f_e9ed_264e_d22af8ed8eec
  style 5f896cf4_e98f_e9ed_264e_d22af8ed8eec fill:#6366f1,stroke:#818cf8,color:#fff

Relationship Graph

Source Code

src/flask/ctx.py lines 398–407

    def match_request(self) -> None:
        """Apply routing to the current request, storing either the matched
        endpoint and args, or a routing exception.
        """
        try:
            result = self.url_adapter.match(return_rule=True)  # type: ignore[union-attr]
        except HTTPException as e:
            self._request.routing_exception = e  # type: ignore[union-attr]
        else:
            self._request.url_rule, self._request.view_args = result  # type: ignore[union-attr]