Bug: Filter wildcards ignore default methods

[MGatner]

Describe the bug
Filters applied via app/Config/Filters.php $filters do a literal check versus the URL, which doesn't take into account default controller methods when resolving wildcards. This makes for confusing behavior - consider the following:

public $filters = ['login' => ['before' => ['account/*']]];

• https://example.com/account/update - runs
• https://example.com/account - does not run
• https://example.com/account/index - runs

A workaround is to specify the wildcard like account* but that also possibly matches other Controllers (like accountants/index).

CodeIgniter 4 version
Latest develop

Affected module(s)
Filters, Routes

Expected behavior, and steps to reproduce if appropriate
I think a simple inclusion of {whatever}/ in * expansion should work.

Context

• OS: Linux
• Web server Apache
• PHP version 7.3

[lonnieezell]

This was the intended functionality. Much like routes, it works in a top-down method, so if you need to match accountants put that prior to account.

[MGatner]

This is for Filters not Routes, so there is really no way to prevent the wildcard matching. You could add it as an except but I still think it is confusing behavior for “foobar/*” not to match “baseurl.com/foobar”.