RequestHook.onRequest Method

Handles the request before it is sent.

class MyRequestHook extends RequestHook {
    async onRequest (event) {
        // ...
    }
}

The onRequest method’s event object exposes the following fields.

Property	Type	Description
event.requestOptions	RequestOptions	Contains the request parameters. You can use it to change the request parameters before the request is sent.
event.isAjax	Boolean	Specifies if the request is performed using AJAX.

async onRequest (event) {
    if(event.isAjax) {
        console.log(event.requestOptions.url);
        console.log(event.requestOptions.credentials.username);

        event.requestOptions.headers['custom-header'] = 'value';
    }
}

RequestOptions

The RequestOptions object contains the request parameters.

Property	Type	Description
headers	Object	The request headers in the property-value form.
body	Buffer	The request body.
url	String	The URL to which the request is sent.
protocol	String	The protocol to use. Default: http:.
hostname	String	The alias for the host.
host	String	The domain name or IP address of the server to issue the request to. Default: localhost.
port	Number	The port of the remote server. Default: 80.
path	String	The request path. Should include query string if any. E.G. ‘/index.html?page=12’. An exception is thrown when the request path contains illegal characters. Currently, only spaces are rejected but that may change in the future. Default: ‘/‘.
method	String	The string specifying the HTTP request method. Default: ‘GET’.
credentials	Object	Credentials to use for Windows (NTLM) or Basic authentication. HTTP Basic authentication requires a username and a password. NTLM authentication services may need to know your workstation and domain. See HTTP Authentication.
proxy	Object	If a proxy is used, the property contains information about its host, hostname, port, proxyAuth, authHeader and bypassRules.