Access http request and response objects about crossroads.js HOT 5 CLOSED

the matched function will receive all the parameters captured by the route, nothing more.. you can use the normalizeFn to add more stuff to it or to change the data format

or you could simply create a helper methods to get the request/response objects or that simply does the redirect like myAwesomeRequestHelper.redirectTo('myAwesomePage')

I would use normalize if you need this data on most of the routes and the helper method if it's something specific and/or I want to keep the default crossroads behavior (pass each captured parameter as a new argument).

cheers!

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Thanks for the tip, i was looking at normalizeFn but i could not get it to work.
Could you provide an example of how i could capture the request and response objects using the normalizeFn?

Im trying to get something like:
router.addRoute('/test/{value1}/{value2}', function (request, response, value1, value2){
// Get request metadata and based on that Redirect the user to a direfent page
})

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something like this should work:

var http = require('http'),
    url = require('url'),
    crossroads = require('crossroads');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {

  crossroads.normalizeFn = function(str, data){
    return [req, res].concat(data.vals_);
  };

  crossroads.parse( url.parse(req.url).pathname );

}).listen(1337, "127.0.0.1");

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Thanks Miller, that worked great.

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this was a design decision to make it more flexible, the drawback is that it requires some boilerplate depending on your use case - in this case wrapping the crossroads.parse and crossroads.normalizeFn into the http.createServer callback.. - the benefit is that the router can be easily adapted for different needs (since it isn't tied to any environment or specific format)

just added an example to the wiki on the normalize section: https://github.com/millermedeiros/crossroads.js/wiki/Examples

cheers

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