How to have a NodeJS/connect middleware execute after responde.end() has been invoked?

Question

I would like to achieve something like this:

var c = require(\'connect\');
var app = c();

app.use(\"/api\", function(req, res, next){
    console.log(\"requ         


        

Answer 1

Not sure whether you have found your solution.

If you want to design a post-processor for the request cycle, you can use a middleware that listens to the "finish" event on the response object. Like this:

app.use(function(req, res, next){
  res.on('finish', function(){
    console.log("Finished " + res.headersSent); // for example
    console.log("Finished " + res.statusCode);  // for example
    // Do whatever you want
  });
  next();
});

The function attached to the "finish" event will be executed after the response is written out (which means the NodeJS has handed off the response header and body to the OS for network transmission).

I guess this must be what you want.