Dancer doesn't (to my knowledge) have a way to have per-route hooks,
or hooks for routes matching some criteria.
before qr{^/private} => sub { ... };
(This is the sort of thing that I think Catalyst does with 'begin'
actions in controllers.)
If you mean Dancer 1, you're right, if you mean Dancer 2, you're wrong.
In Dancer 2, everything is scoped to the "app" it's defined, so doing that is preatty easy with D2:
package SomeApp;
hook 'before' => sub {
};
# some routes
In this case, only the routes defined in SomeApp will have the filters defined. Only them. For more details about that feature, I suggest reading that article: http://advent.perldancer.org/2012/7
Wouldn't that be a perfect opportunity to try a switch to Dancer 2?
PS: you could actually do it in Dancer 1 with a test in the before filter like so: