Register a hook

Plumber routers support the notion of "hooks" that can be registered to execute some code at a particular point in the lifecycle of a request. Plumber routers currently support four hooks:

1. preroute(data, req, res)

2. postroute(data, req, res, value)

3. preserialize(data, req, res, value)

4. postserialize(data, req, res, value) In all of the above you have access to a disposable environment in the data parameter that is created as a temporary data store for each request. Hooks can store temporary data in these hooks that can be reused by other hooks processing this same request.

Usage

pr_hook(pr, stage, handler)

pr_hooks(pr, handlers)

Arguments

pr

A Plumber API. Note: The supplied Plumber API object will also be updated in place as well as returned by the function.

stage

A character string. Point in the lifecycle of a request.

handler

A hook function.

handlers

A named list of hook handlers

Value

A Plumber router with the defined hook(s) added

Details

One feature when defining hooks in Plumber routers is the ability to modify the returned value. The convention for such hooks is: any function that accepts a parameter named value is expected to return the new value. This could be an unmodified version of the value that was passed in, or it could be a mutated value. But in either case, if your hook accepts a parameter named value, whatever your hook returns will be used as the new value for the response.

You can add hooks using the pr_hook, or you can add multiple hooks at once using pr_hooks, which takes a named list in which the names are the names of the hooks, and the values are the handlers themselves.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
pr() %>%
  pr_hook("preroute", function(req){
    cat("Routing a request for", req$PATH_INFO, "...\n")
  }) %>%
  pr_hooks(list(
    preserialize = function(req, value){
      print("About to serialize this value:")
      print(value)

      # Must return the value since we took one in. Here we're not choosing
      # to mutate it, but we could.
      value
    },
    postserialize = function(res){
      print("We serialized the value as:")
      print(res$body)
    }
  )) %>%
  pr_handle("GET", "/", function(){ 123 }) %>%
  pr_run()
}