Loader

The Loader interface in torque is a ubiquitous interface in the Controller API that enables your route controller to handle incoming HTTP GET requests. Its responsibility is to load a ViewModel that will then be rendered to the response.

The generic constraint T is the ViewModel type that the Loader is expected to return. Providing this enable torque to do some pretty cool things, like static type checking and code generation.

Note that the generic constraint T is also shared by the Renderer interface. Refer to the Renderer documentation for more information.

Implementation

Hooks

Typically used in a Loader, hooks can pass data to the Load method from other parts of the request stack, such as middlewares, outlet handlers or plugins.

The torque framework offers a series of built in hooks that can be found on the Hooks page. A basic example is the torque Mode hook, which can be used to determine the current runtime environment.