Consider dropping : from path pattern

[ikhoon]

: is useful to bind a path variable. However, : is a variable character for a path.
If a path variable :foo is mixed with a literal :, it is ambiguous and difficult to know the exact scope of the variable, e.g. /api/v1/:project:get.

Currently, project:get is regarded as a path variable. It makes no sense because I believe most people intend to use project as the path variable and :get is an exact path match.

I don't see that it is inconvenient to only use {project} in a path pattern. Excluding : from path variables and using it only as literals would be a way to eliminate ambiguity and simplify our logic.

Instead, : could be used as a special character within {} to indicate the type of the parameter.

armeria/core/src/main/java/com/linecorp/armeria/server/ParameterizedPathMapping.java

Line 146 in 2112f50

// TODO: Implement param options expressed like `{bar:type=int,range=[0,10]}`.