> > On 2013-01-02, at 5:35 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:27 PM, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Rick Bragg <[email protected]> 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. >> >> While the above explanation makes sense, and understanding it can lead to >> designing applications better, my gut feeling is with Rick. If I create a >> 'before' hook, I want it normally to fire once everything the human user >> makes a >> request even though under the scene the browser is making multiple requests. >> In >> other words, the current behavior seems to be against the DWIM nature that I >> would expect. >> >> Dancer being the new, easy way of developing apps, should perhaps have two >> kinds >> of hooks -- one that behaves the current way, and another that fires the way >> Rick, myself, and I suspect many other Dancer users expect it to behave, >> that is, >> once per human user request. > > If the before hook is firing on each request for static content (like > favicon.ico), > why even bother serving it up via the app? You can handle that via > https://metacpan.org/module/Plack::Middleware::Static or in your web server > config. > In most cases you don't even want the app to know about static files. > > Olaf > -- > Olaf Alders > [email protected] > > http://www.wundersolutions.com > http://twitter.com/wundercounter > > 866 503 2204 (Toll free - North America) > 416 944 8306 (direct) >
I'm using plack and I have apache set up to serve the "public" directory directly... so... I still don't get why the multiple calls to the before hook... Rick _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
