Ticket #565 (enhancement)

At the moment you can't programmatically attach hooks so that they are *always* executed without enabling them in configuration.

The problem is that the respond method of the Request class overwrites the hooks attribute with a new HookMap? object without keeping hooks defined at the class level.

The patch is just one line:

Index: _cprequest.py
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--- _cprequest.py       (revision 1367)
+++ _cprequest.py       (working copy)
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@
                         self.process_headers()

                     self.hooks = HookMap(self.hookpoints)
+                    self.hooks.update(self.__class__.hooks)
                     self.get_resource(path_info)
                     self.configure()

with it you can do things like:

cherrypy.engine.request_class.hooks.attach("before_handler", my_func)