Can a Director route handler abort or return an error

[Stuart Malin]

Is it possible for a route handler to abort (that is, not generate any response)?

I'd like to be able to have certain route handlers abort in such a way that either 

(a) the router treats the request as unhandled, or 

(b) an error object is returned to the middleware.

[Charlie Robbins]

Stuart,

It is very possible to do this:

var router = new director.http.Router();

//

// Router treats the request as unhandled

//

router.get('/', function (next) {

  next();

});

//

// Router responds with an error to the next middleware

//

router.get('/', function (next) {

  next(new Error('OHAI I'm an error');

});

It's worth noting that the `next` callback always comes after any capture groups in the routing table:

e.g.

//

// Setup a router path with a regexp and capture group

//

router.path(/\/(\w+)/, function () {

  //

  // Then setup a second regexp and capture group

  //

  router.get(\/(\w+)/, function (outerCapture, innerCapture, next) {

    //

    // ***Notice there are two parameters before next***

    //

  });

});

Cheers,

Charlie

[Stuart Malin]

Charlie,

Of course I had tried that... but for my code, no function is passed to the route handler.

Test code:

//------------------------

router = new director.http.Router();

router.get('/', function (next) {

  var res = this.res;

  res.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});

  res.end("Hello World! next=" + next);

});

//------------------------

displays next as "undefined'

NOTE: 'next' is defined as a function if I configure for aync:

router = new director.http.Router().configure({

  async: true

});

Should that matter?

I am using Director 1.0.10

node 0.6.14

TIA,

~Stuart~