[coldbox 3.8] remove routes for all/specific modules on per-request basis

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Is there a way to bypass module routes on a per-request basis?

I’ve tried doing this in onRequestCapture

if (condition)
controller.getInterceptorService().getInterceptor(‘ses’).removeModuleRoutes( modulename );

But it is not per-request (it affects other requests, where condition is false).

Any ideas?

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Can you give an example of what you’re trying to do? What are the criteria that decides when a route should be inaccessible during a given request?

The SES interceptor is a singleton, so modifying its config will affect the entire app. Is there a reason you can’t use a preProcess interceptor to redirect the user elsewhere based on your criteria?

Thanks!

~Brad

ColdBox Platform Evangelist
Ortus Solutions, Corp

E-mail: brad@coldbox.org
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Can you give an example of what you’re trying to do?

Host websites from the same application as the backoffice. (Not the way I would do it, but it’s what we’ve got.)

It generally works, except the module routes are getting in the way before contentbox can do its stuff, hence wanting to skip/disable them when it’s a website request.

The criteria is basically checking hostname/etc, and sets Request.isWebsite in App.cfc before Coldbox gets invoked.

So I had another idea - if the routes themselves can check against Request.isWebsite and count as a failure if it’s true?

It looks like there’s Route Conditions which allows this - is there a way to bulk set that to a default function?
Then I could have one function for the backend and manually override the contentbox-ui ones to a different function, and that should do it.

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Ok, so I did use the route condition to get it work, though to set the default I edited the interceptor (so not recommended for people that want simple core-file updates).

This function is called in onApplicationStart to setup the condition functions:

Application.AreaFuncs = { isWebsite : function(){ return Request.isWebsite; } , isBackoffice : function(){ return NOT Request.isWebsite; } , isAnywhere : function(){ return true; } };

(Again, the Request.isWebsite variable is setup in onRequestStart, based on hostnames/etc.)

Then the isBackoffice function is set to default by inserting these two lines to the the top of addRoute in /coldbox/system/interceptors/SES.cfc

if ( NOT StructKeyExists(Arguments,‘condition’) )
Arguments.condition = Application.AreaFuncs.isBackoffice;

That saves editing routes in 3-4 dozen module configs that the Backoffice uses, then for just the ones in contentbox-ui/ModuleConfig.cfc, all routes have this:

{pattern="/:pageSlug", handler=“page”, action=“index” , condition=Application.AreaFuncs.isWebsite }

And if we ever have shared modules, we can use the isAnywhere one to reset to default behaviour.