[Dancer-users] Selectively calling before() from route handlers

[Gurunandan Bhat]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:09 PM, David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>wrote:

> On Friday 17 December 2010 06:31:33 Gurunandan Bhat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way I can set whether a particular route handler calls
> before().
> > I am looking to implement authenticated/unauthenticated routes and would
> > like to execute before() only if the route requires authentication. Any
> > suggestions in doing something like this would be great.
>
>
> before handlers are called before all requests, but you don't have to do
> anything if the request isn't one you're interested in.
>
> e.g.
>
>    before sub {
>       return if request->path_info !~ m{^/private/};
>       # Authentication stuff here
>    };
> Is that any use?
>

Yes, in effect, currently this is how I am doing it. What I have done now is
to put the yaml config which I search in before() to check if I need to run
at all.


> Of course, that means the list of which routes require authentication is
> kept
> separately to the route declarations themselves, which might not be what
> you
> want.
>
>
Indeed. Thats what I am looking for: Ideally some syntactic sugar that I
sweeten my route handler with:

*run before => true;*

Dancer does spoil you, doesn't it :)

Thank you.



>
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave P
>
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