Hooks

Hooks

Falcon supports before and after hooks. You install a hook simply by applying one of the decorators below, either to an individual responder or to an entire resource.

For example, consider this hook that validates a POST request for an image resource:

def validate_image_type(req, resp, resource, params):
    if req.content_type not in ALLOWED_IMAGE_TYPES:
        msg = 'Image type not allowed. Must be PNG, JPEG, or GIF'
        raise falcon.HTTPBadRequest('Bad request', msg)

You would attach this hook to an on_post responder like so:

@falcon.before(validate_image_type)
def on_post(self, req, resp):
    pass

Or, suppose you had a hook that you would like to apply to all responders for a given resource. In that case, you would simply decorate the resource class:

@falcon.before(extract_proje
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