meteor-mini-pages - Before callback hack to transparently render a different template than originally defined.

mini-pages transparent template rendering

var beforeFilters = {
  authenticate: function (context, page) {
    var user

    if (Meteor.loggingIn()) {
      console.log('authenticate: loading')
      //context.redirect( Meteor.loadingPath() )
      if (!page.origTemplate) {
        page.origTemplate = page.templateName
      }
      page.templateName = 'loading'
      context.loading = true
      context.handled = true
      return
    } else {
      delete context.loading
      user = Meteor.user()
      if (!user) {
        console.log('authenticate: login')
        //context.redirect( Meteor.loginPath() )
        if (!page.origTemplate) {
          page.origTemplate = page.templateName
        }
        page.templateName = 'login'
        context.loggingIn = true
        context.handled = true
        return
      }

      delete context.loggingIn

      if (!emailVerified(user)) {
        console.log('authenticate: awaitingVerification')
        //context.redirect( Meteor.awaitingVerificationPath() )
        if (!page.origTemplate) {
          page.origTemplate = page.templateName
        }
        page.templateName = 'awaitingVerification'
        context.handled = true
        return 
      }
    }

    console.log('authenticate: passed')

    if (page.origTemplate) {
      // restore original template
      console.log('authenticate: restoring original template - ' + page.origTemplate)
      page.templateName = page.origTemplate
      delete page.origTemplate
    }
  }
}

cc @pkaushik

Thanks for showing me this use case @alanning. In the next release I think I need to address this because the authorize() case falls apart a little with the current design. I'm thinking it would be nice to have something like:

function filter (context, page) {
  if (authorized()) page.useTemplate("someTemplate");
  else page.useTemplate("someOtherTemplate"); // or use default
}

I'd also like to make it easier to specify global before filters so you don't have to type it for every route. Any ideas?