[erlang-questions] how to better organize code for a website

[Graham Hay]

No, I don't think so, it's not quite as flexible as something like Express.
But you can check the Req path in your middleware.

On 7 December 2015 at 10:39, avinash D'silva <evnix.com@REDACTED> wrote:

> wow!! thanks!
>
> It worked perfectly.
>
>
> is there a way to assign the middleware to specific routes?  currently all
> the public routes are blocked due to the login middleware.
>
>
>
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> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Graham Hay <grahamrhay@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> You might be able to do something with a cowboy middleware:
>>
>> http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/guide/middlewares/
>>
>> Or, failing that, you could just extract that case to a module somewhere,
>> and pass in "do something here" as a fun.
>>
>> On 7 December 2015 at 09:03, avinash D'silva <evnix.com@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I am using cowboy+cowboy_session for building websites.
>>>
>>> each route has something similar as shown below:
>>>
>>>
>>> -module(get_pageX).
>>> -behaviour(cowboy_http_handler).
>>>
>>> -export([init/3]).
>>> -export([handle/2]).
>>> -export([terminate/3]).
>>>
>>> -record(state, {
>>> }).
>>>
>>> init(_, Req, _Opts) ->
>>> {ok, Req, #state{}}.
>>>
>>> handle(Req, State=#state{}) ->
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       case  cowboy_session:get("loggedin",  Req) of
>>>
>>>          true ->
>>>                        #do something here
>>>
>>>           _ ->
>>>                     #not logged in.
>>>
>>>        end,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> {ok, ReqFinal} = cowboy_req:reply(200,
>>> [{<<"content-type">>, <<"text/html">>}],
>>>         <<"Some response">>,
>>>           Req),
>>>
>>> {ok, ReqFinal, State}.
>>>
>>> terminate(_Reason, _Req, _State) ->
>>> ok.
>>>
>>>
>>> The above CASE(code) is repeated for every route to check if the user is
>>> logged in, is there a better way to organize this?
>>>
>>> what I am looking for is a way to check if the user is logged in and if
>>> not, redirect to login route.
>>>
>>>
>>> PS: I am new to Erlang
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Avinash D' Silva
>>>
>>>
>>>
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