mapRequest

Description

Transforms the request before it is handled by the inner route.

The mapRequest directive is used as a building block for Custom Directives to transform a request before it is handled by the inner route. Changing the request.uri parameter has no effect on path matching in the inner route because the unmatched path is a separate field of the RequestContext value which is passed into routes. To change the unmatched path or other fields of the RequestContext use the mapRequestContext directive.

See Transforming the Request(Context) for an overview of similar directives.

Example

final Route route = mapRequest(req ->
  req.withMethod(HttpMethods.POST), () ->
  extractRequest(req -> complete("The request method was " + req.method().name()))
);

// tests:
testRoute(route).run(HttpRequest.GET("/"))
  .assertEntity("The request method was POST");