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+
+ <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
+ <p>This document is still in development and may be partially out of
+ date.</p>
+ </div>
+
+ <p>In general, a hook function is one that the Apache HTTP Server
+ will call at some point during the processing of a request.
+ Modules can provide functions that are called, and specify when
+ they get called in comparison to other modules.</p>
+</div>
+<div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#corehooks">Core Hooks</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#create">Creating a hook function</a></li>
+<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#hooking">Hooking the hook</a></li>
+</ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
+<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="corehooks" id="corehooks">Core Hooks</a></h2>
+ <p>The httpd's core modules offer a predefinined list of hooks
+ used during the standard <a href="./request.html">request processing</a>
+ phase. Creating a new hook will expose a function that
+ implements it (see sections below) but it is essential to understand that you will not
+ extend the httpd's core hooks. Their presence and order in the request processing is in fact
+ a consequence of how they are called in <code>server/request.c</code>
+ (check <a href="./modguide.html#hooking">this section</a>
+ for an overview). The core hooks are listed in the
+ <a href="https://ci.apache.org/projects/httpd/trunk/doxygen/group__hooks.html">doxygen documentation</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Reading <a href="./modguide.html">guide for developing modules</a> and
+ <a href="./request.html">request processing</a> before proceeding is
+ highly recommended.
+ </p>
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="create" id="create">Creating a hook function</a></h2>
+ <p>In order to create a new hook, four things need to be
+ done:</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="create-declare" id="create-declare">Declare the hook function</a></h3>
+ <p>Use the <code>AP_DECLARE_HOOK</code> macro, which needs to be given
+ the return type of the hook function, the name of the hook, and the
+ arguments. For example, if the hook returns an <code>int</code> and
+ takes a <code>request_rec *</code> and an <code>int</code> and is
+ called <code>do_something</code>, then declare it like this:</p>
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">AP_DECLARE_HOOK(int, do_something, (request_rec *r, int n))</pre>
+
+
+ <p>This should go in a header which modules will include if
+ they want to use the hook.</p>
+
+
+ <h3><a name="create-create" id="create-create">Create the hook structure</a></h3>
+ <p>Each source file that exports a hook has a private structure
+ which is used to record the module functions that use the hook.
+ This is declared as follows:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">APR_HOOK_STRUCT(
+ APR_HOOK_LINK(do_something)
+ ...
+)</pre>
+
+
+
+ <h3><a name="create-implement" id="create-implement">Implement the hook caller</a></h3>
+ <p>The source file that exports the hook has to implement a
+ function that will call the hook. There are currently three
+ possible ways to do this. In all cases, the calling function is
+ called <code>ap_run_<var>hookname</var>()</code>.</p>
+
+ <h4>Void hooks</h4>
+ <p>If the return value of a hook is <code>void</code>, then all the
+ hooks are called, and the caller is implemented like this:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">AP_IMPLEMENT_HOOK_VOID(do_something, (request_rec *r, int n), (r, n))</pre>
+
+
+ <p>The second and third arguments are the dummy argument
+ declaration and the dummy arguments as they will be used when
+ calling the hook. In other words, this macro expands to
+ something like this:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">void ap_run_do_something(request_rec *r, int n)
+{
+ ...
+ do_something(r, n);
+}</pre>
+
+
+
+ <h4>Hooks that return a value</h4>
+ <p>If the hook returns a value, then it can either be run until
+ the first hook that does something interesting, like so:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">AP_IMPLEMENT_HOOK_RUN_FIRST(int, do_something, (request_rec *r, int n), (r, n), DECLINED)</pre>
+
+
+ <p>The first hook that does <em>not</em> return <code>DECLINED</code>
+ stops the loop and its return value is returned from the hook
+ caller. Note that <code>DECLINED</code> is the traditional
+ hook return value meaning "I didn't do anything", but it can be
+ whatever suits you.</p>
+
+ <p>Alternatively, all hooks can be run until an error occurs.
+ This boils down to permitting <em>two</em> return values, one of
+ which means "I did something, and it was OK" and the other
+ meaning "I did nothing". The first function that returns a
+ value other than one of those two stops the loop, and its
+ return is the return value. Declare these like so:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">AP_IMPLEMENT_HOOK_RUN_ALL(int, do_something, (request_rec *r, int n), (r, n), OK, DECLINED)</pre>
+
+
+ <p>Again, <code>OK</code> and <code>DECLINED</code> are the traditional
+ values. You can use what you want.</p>
+
+
+
+ <h3><a name="create-call" id="create-call">Call the hook callers</a></h3>
+ <p>At appropriate moments in the code, call the hook caller,
+ like so:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">int n, ret;
+request_rec *r;
+
+ret=ap_run_do_something(r, n);</pre>
+
+
+</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
+<div class="section">
+<h2><a name="hooking" id="hooking">Hooking the hook</a></h2>
+ <p>A module that wants a hook to be called needs to do two
+ things.</p>
+
+ <h3><a name="hooking-implement" id="hooking-implement">Implement the hook function</a></h3>
+ <p>Include the appropriate header, and define a static function
+ of the correct type:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">static int my_something_doer(request_rec *r, int n)
+{
+ ...
+ return OK;
+}</pre>
+
+
+
+ <h3><a name="hooking-add" id="hooking-add">Add a hook registering function</a></h3>
+ <p>During initialisation, the server will call each modules hook
+ registering function, which is included in the module
+ structure:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">static void my_register_hooks()
+{
+ ap_hook_do_something(my_something_doer, NULL, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);
+}
+
+mode MODULE_VAR_EXPORT my_module =
+{
+ ...
+ my_register_hooks /* register hooks */
+};</pre>
+
+
+
+ <h3><a name="hooking-order" id="hooking-order">Controlling hook calling order</a></h3>
+ <p>In the example above, we didn't use the three arguments in
+ the hook registration function that control calling order of
+ all the functions registered within the hook.
+ There are two mechanisms for doing this. The first, rather
+ crude, method, allows us to specify roughly where the hook is
+ run relative to other modules. The final argument control this.
+ There are three possible values: <code>APR_HOOK_FIRST</code>,
+ <code>APR_HOOK_MIDDLE</code> and <code>APR_HOOK_LAST</code>.</p>
+
+ <p>All modules using any particular value may be run in any
+ order relative to each other, but, of course, all modules using
+ <code>APR_HOOK_FIRST</code> will be run before <code>APR_HOOK_MIDDLE</code>
+ which are before <code>APR_HOOK_LAST</code>. Modules that don't care
+ when they are run should use <code>APR_HOOK_MIDDLE</code>. <em>These
+ values are spaced out, so that positions like <code>APR_HOOK_FIRST-2</code>
+ are possible to hook slightly earlier than other functions.</em></p>
+
+ <p>Note that there are two more values,
+ <code>APR_HOOK_REALLY_FIRST</code> and <code>APR_HOOK_REALLY_LAST</code>. These
+ should only be used by the hook exporter.</p>
+
+ <p>The other method allows finer control. When a module knows
+ that it must be run before (or after) some other modules, it
+ can specify them by name. The second (third) argument is a
+ NULL-terminated array of strings consisting of the names of
+ modules that must be run before (after) the current module. For
+ example, suppose we want "mod_xyz.c" and "mod_abc.c" to run
+ before we do, then we'd hook as follows:</p>
+
+ <pre class="prettyprint lang-c">static void register_hooks()
+{
+ static const char * const aszPre[] = { "mod_xyz.c", "mod_abc.c", NULL };
+
+ ap_hook_do_something(my_something_doer, aszPre, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);
+}</pre>
+
+
+ <p>Note that the sort used to achieve this is stable, so
+ ordering set by <code>APR_HOOK_<var>ORDER</var></code> is preserved, as far
+ as is possible.</p>
+
+
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