Group middleware does not work for "Any" route

[KaymeKaydex]

Issue Description

Checklist

• [ + ] Dependencies installed
• [ + ] No typos
• [ + ] Searched existing issues and docs

Expected behaviour

normal routing

Actual behaviour

{
"message": "Not Found"
}

Steps to reproduce

just create any request

Working code to debug

	g := e.Group("/api/test") 
	g.Use(echo.WrapMiddleware(mw.NewMW()))
	{
		g.Any("*", testController.Proxy) 
	}

actual result is 
{
    "message": "Not Found"
}
but route cant return anything

Version/commit

github.com/labstack/echo/v4 v4.11.1

[aldas]

This is little bit tricky.

Let assume group and handler is added like this:

func main() {
	e := echo.New()

	g := e.Group("/api/test")
	//g.Use(middleware.Logger())
	g.Any("*", func(c echo.Context) error {
		return c.String(http.StatusOK, c.Path())
	})

	if err := e.Start(":8080"); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, http.ErrServerClosed) {
		e.Logger.Fatal(err)
	}
}

When you add route with g.Any("*" you will end up with route path /api/test*. This will match both of following request

x@x:~/code$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/test/hi
/api/test*
x@x:~/code$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/testhi
/api/test*

as your router has following routes

now when we add middleware to that group by uncommenting g.Use(middleware.Logger())

we have following routes

that 4 is 404 route for path /api/test/* which is causing problem here as it is more precise match than api/test*.

x@x:~/code$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/testhi
/api/test*
x@x:~/code$ curl http://localhost:8080/api/test/hi
{"message":"Not Found"}

---

As a workaround I suggest:

• adding that any route like that g.Any("/*" as it will then overwrite that 404 route.
• or creating group like that g := e.Group("/api/test/")

That 404 route is a "feature" that is added here (line 32)

echo/group.go

Lines 21 to 32 in 77d5ae6

	func (g *Group) Use(middleware ...MiddlewareFunc) {
	g.middleware = append(g.middleware, middleware...)
	if len(g.middleware) == 0 {
	return
	}
	// group level middlewares are different from Echo `Pre` and `Use` middlewares (those are global). Group level middlewares
	// are only executed if they are added to the Router with route.
	// So we register catch all route (404 is a safe way to emulate route match) for this group and now during routing the
	// Router would find route to match our request path and therefore guarantee the middleware(s) will get executed.
	g.RouteNotFound("", NotFoundHandler)
	g.RouteNotFound("/*", NotFoundHandler)
	}

[vishr]

Thanks for reporting this. It's been inactive for a long time and may already be resolved in a current release (v5 / v4.15.x). I'm closing to keep the tracker focused — if you still hit this on a current version, please comment with a minimal reproduction and we'll reopen right away. 🙏