Tailoring spawn options and server configuration to certain users

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@mlobo

Any reason why you didn’t use the custom pre-spawn hook for both solutions? Can’t see why wouldn’t use it for problem 1.

Problem 1 is about customizing the options presented to a user, and you can’t do that in the pre_spawn_hook. The pre_spawn_hook that is invoked after the user has been presented with options and made choices about presented server options.

The order of events of relevance are:

1. A user is presented with server options

   Providing a custom options_form function makes these options render based on custom logic that can be user specific. It would be too late to use a pre_spawn_hook in this case, because those are triggered after the user has been presented and provided input via the options_form.

2. A user has opted to start a server with some chosen entry from the options_form.

   Providing a pre_spawn_hook function enables to take further actions based on the choice(s) made in the options_form.

To conclude:

• options_form is suited to customize what options to present based on the user
• pre_spawn_hook is suited to customize what final settings to configure based on the choices the user made in the presented options_form.