before/after filters in 1.0

[dennisreimann]

Based on this mailinglist thread [1] I thought about porting the 0.1.x hooks over to 1.0, what do you think about that? I could imagine the API to be something like this:

var authenticate = function(req, res) { verifyUser(); };

app.before({ only: ['/mysecureroute', '/topsecret'], filter: authenticate });
app.before({ except: ['/login'], filter: authenticate });
app.before(authenticate); // use filter for all requests

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/express-js/browse_frm/thread/ba1280fb0304d067

[tj]

lets move this to the express-contrib repo :D will be a good fit there, lets keep core minimal

[dennisreimann]

Yeah, very good idea!

[tj]

been meaning to start that for a while lol but i think it's a great way to provide some more functionality without imposing

[changchang]

is there any module implementing the filter api? i'm looking for that, too. can you tell me the url of the filter module?

[tj]

@changchang route-specific middleware provide this sort of functionality now