request (Core Hook)

In future releases, the various responsibilities of this hook will likely be farmed out to other hooks and/or pulled into core.

Purpose

This hook's responsibilities are:

Add properties to req

• req.params.all()
• req.wantsJSON()
• req.explicitlyAcceptsHTML()
• req.baseUrl
• req.port
• req._sails (access to the app's sails object in case it's not global)

Set default view locals (i.e. app.locals)

• _ (lodash)
• session
• req
• res
• sails

Note that this will likely move into the views hook in the future.

FAQ

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