def match(self, path):
"""Check if the rule matches a given path. Path is a string in the
form ``"subdomain|/path(method)"`` and is assembled by the map. If
the map is doing host matching the subdomain part will be the host
instead.
If the rule matches a dict with the converted values is returned,
otherwise the return value is `None`.
"""
if not self.build_only:
m = self._regex.search(path)
if m is not None:
groups = m.groupdict()
result = {}
for name, value in iteritems(groups):
try:
value = self._converters[name].to_python(value)
except ValidationError:
return
result[str(name)] = value
if self.defaults:
result.update(self.defaults)
return result