Override resource handlers

[desmondmorris]

There should be a way to override the default generated handlers. You should be able to house the resource files in a directory that is discoverable or configurable.

[joshuajabbour]

Some sort of middleware stack might be best here. Keeping in mind that overriding might not be the goal, but extending/hooking might sometimes be more beneficial.

[desmondmorris]

@joshuajabbour I think you are right - middleware is probably the way to go - should be trivial to implement pre/post style hooks here.

My question is, after res.end is executed, can a middleware hook be executed after?

[joshuajabbour]

No, res.end/res.send is the end of it all. I looked into this a bit last night, and the consensus seems to be wrapping send. This however is I think a conceptual flaw with middleware that we'll have to work around. What we really want it to have a result object that can be passed through middleware, maybe pushing that onto the response object is the only way to go...

[desmondmorris]

Hmm maybe the default handlers become something like this?

(req, res, next ) => {

   if (typeof next === 'function') {
     return next(req, res);
   }  

   // DEFAULT HANDLER LOGIC
}

Though I think "next" is always a function, so this may be flawed.