Is there anyway to abort processing in a before() method and prevent it from executing item(). I am checking for an error and then I want to just want to go straight to renderdata and do nothing else: setting a return in before() does not seem to prevent it from continuing on to the item() method.

rc["response"]["errors"] = 'Sorry, something went wrong';
variables.fw.renderData().type( 'json' ).data( rc.response ).statusCode( 200 ).statusText( "Successful" );
return;

abortController() might meet your needs, placed after your render line

thank you

you can also just

return variables.fw.renderData()...;

pretty sure the item() method will still execute if you just

return variables.fw.renderData()...;