Nicholas Lindley

We have been using Hapi as a framework for our Node apps. Overall I like it, but that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

In the request lifecycle, any error from validation will respond with 400 Bad Request. The problem is loading prerequisites happens much later, and if we’re trying to update a resource that doesn’t exist, we really want 404 Not Found.

We can load the entity in the validation function, but even returning a 404 error object give a 400 response.

It would also be nice to do some authorization between prerequisites and handlers, but there is no extension point.