Middleware routes:after phase does not work

[James Cooke]

I've tried a couple of ways to tie my middleware to the routes:after phase and am having no success.

In server.js I have tried:

app.middleware("routes:after",[],function(req,res,next) {
  console.log("here");
  next();
})

I have also tried:

middleware.json

"routes:after": {
  "./middleware/test": {}
},

middleware/test.js

module.exports = function() {
  return function tracker(req, res, next) {
    console.log('Middleware triggered on %s.', req.url);
    next();
  };
};

Neither trigger a console log however if I change routes:after to routes:before they do work. Also triggering off other phases works. Any ideas?

[Raymond Feng]

What URL do you hit? Please note that /api/<model> doesn’t proceed to other middleware as it’s handled by remote methods on models. 

Thanks,

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Raymond Feng

Co-Founder and Architect @ StrongLoop, Inc.

StrongLoop makes it easy to develop APIs in Node, plus get DevOps capabilities like monitoring, debugging and clustering.

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[James Cooke]

Ah right so you can only use the middleware with non /api/* requests. That's quite annoying.

I have actually worked around this with a boot script which uses app.remotes().after() but middleware seemed to be a more generic method to accomplish this. 

Thanks for replying - what is the best way to update the documentation as I found this not obvious - can I submit a pull request somewhere?

James

[Raymond Feng]

Remote hooks can be used to intercept the requests to /api/… before it’s handed over the the model method implementation.

Thanks,

---

Raymond Feng

Co-Founder and Architect @ StrongLoop, Inc.

StrongLoop makes it easy to develop APIs in Node, plus get DevOps capabilities like monitoring, debugging and clustering.

[James Cooke]

I'm looking to modify the response to add HAL type links to it. Is there a better hook I can use as the "access" hook comes before the model I need something after the model.

[Raymond Feng]

You can do it with afterRemote hooks.

Thanks,

---

Raymond Feng

Co-Founder and Architect @ StrongLoop, Inc.

StrongLoop makes it easy to develop APIs in Node, plus get DevOps capabilities like monitoring, debugging and clustering.