Interception

Available since io.Connect Desktop 9.6

All io.Connect functionalities exposed by the io.Connect APIs and used by the interop-enabled apps are performed via sending control messages to the io.Connect Desktop platform. These control messages contain specific information about the requested io.Connect operations which the platform processes and executes the respective commands in the respective io.Connect API domains. Therefore, by using the Interception API to register your app (usually a hidden service window) as an interception handler, it's possible to intercept such operation requests on a lower level in order to decorate their default functionality, prevent it, or replace it with your custom functionality.

To enable your apps to register interception handlers, use the "interception" top-level key in the system.json system configuration file of io.Connect Desktop.

The following example demonstrates how to enable interception for all apps:

{
    "interception": {
        "enabled": true
    }
}

The "interception" object has the following properties:

To allow only specific apps to register interception handlers, use the "applications" property and provide the names of the apps as specified in their respective app definitions:

{
    "interception": {
        "enabled": true,
        "applications": ["my-app", "my-other-app"]
    }
}