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Luis Majano

March 23, 2016

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Sometimes when you define an incoming API route, you want it to match certain environment or aspect conditions. The addRoute() has an argument called condition, which can be a closure or UDF pointer that must return a boolean and receives the incoming requestString. You can then decide if the route should execute or just be ignored.

So if a route matches via the pattern, then this closure/UDF is called to verify the route with your own custom conditions. This is a great way to create some routes that must match certain environment criterias before they fire. Let's say you only want to fire some routes if they are using FireFox, or a user is logged in, or whatever.


// condition closure
function(requestString){}

// Routing with condition
addRoute(
    pattern="/go/ff", 
    response="

Hello FireFox!

", condition=function(requestString){ return ( findnocase( "Firefox", cgi.HTTP_USER_AGENT ) ? true : false ); } );
Happy Resting!!

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