[dancer-users] Before Hook hit multiple times.

[Rick Bragg]

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bragg <rbragg at gmnet.net> wrote:
>> hooks and routes are called once in the application flow.  Do I really have to
>> program around this taking into consideration the number of times the before hook
>> is called on each page?
>
> HTTP is stateless.  The client can make as many requests as it likes
> and your Dancer app will see them as separate requests.
>
> The 'before' hook fires for every request.  If you want to limit a
> hook to particular routes, you have to write that logic yourself in
> the hook subroutine or else wrap the route handlers instead of using a
> before hook.
>
> David
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Thanks, I know well the stateless nature of HTTP :)  It does make sense that Dancer
has an in for every resource request...  I'm trying to put some logic in one place
to test custom fine-grain user/groups/roles/permissions management stuff on every
page get or form post.  I guess this runs on EVERY resource request so I need to
think about that.  It makes sense, but it just seemed a little weird and maybe
needs some extra programming workaround.

Thanks!
Rick