Meteor Method Hooks
Before/after hooks for Meteor methods
This package extends Meteor with four methods:
Meteor.beforeMethodsMeteor.afterMethodsMeteor.beforeAllMethodsMeteor.afterAllMethods
This package differs from hitchcott:method-hooks in that:
- You can add hooks for all methods
- It works on both client and server
- You can add and remove hooks at runtime.
- After methods can change the methods result
The beforeMethods method can be used for securing Meteor.methods based on the result of a definable function.
Any beforeMethods that throws an error will stop the relevant method and any other hooks from executing.
If you want to prevent further execution without triggering an error, you can just return 'false' from within your hook.
Here's an example for checking user login:
1Meteor.beforeMethods('test',function(){ 2 if(!Meteor.userId()) throw new Meteor.Error(403,"Forbidden"); 3})
You can also pass an array of method names as first parameter.
Uses include:
- Security
- Logging
- [insert imaginative idea]
The before methods get the same arguments as the original method,
The after methods get the arguments + the result of the original method. If it returns a value that is not null or undefined, then this will replace the original result.
Remarks
If you have a lot of methods on the client-side, initial page load time can be increased, since each method needs to be wrapped in another method on page load.
TODO
- Testing
Credits
Inspired by: Chris Hitchcott, 2015