Middleware support

[Norman Paniagua]

I just found an issue with the way that always worked with express, and its to add a middleware (for authentication) that verify is there is an active session, the issue its that only certain routes need to be verified. i.e.

app.use(route.get('/dashboard', 'backend/user#authenticated', 'backend/dashboard#index'));

Or there is a koa way to do this?

Edited: I just made a hack to routes, and seems like:

var route = require('koa-route')
  self = function() {
  var method = arguments[2] || 'GET'
    , url = arguments[0]
    , controller = require('./controllers/' + arguments[1].split('#')[0])
    , action = arguments[1].split('#')[1];

  action = !action ? 'index' : (action.length == 0 ? 'index' : action)

  console.log('\t[' + method + ']', url, '  =>  ', arguments[1]);

  switch(method.toUpperCase()) {
    case 'POST': return route.post(url, controller[action]);
    case 'PUT': return route.put(url, controller[action]);
    case 'DELETE': return route.delete(url, controller[action]);
    case 'all': return route.all(url, controller[action]);
    default: return route.get(url, controller[action]);
  }
};

module.exports = {
  get: function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'GET');
  },
  post: function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'POST');
  },
  put: function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'PUT');
  },
  delete: function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'DELETE');
  },
  del: function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'DELETE');
  },
  all : function(url, controller) {
    return self(url, controller, 'ALL');
  }
};

Thats because I'm lazy to load all my controllers manually, but also looking at the source code of route it only accepts two params, route and method.

[TJ Holowaychuk]

if you want something resource-oriented check out koa-router, it's a port of express-resource

[Norman Paniagua]

thanks, ill check that