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title: 'API docs: context.genericinterceptor'
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[Home](./index.md) &gt; [@loopback/context](./context.md) &gt; [GenericInterceptor](./context.genericinterceptor.md)

## GenericInterceptor type

An interceptor function to be invoked in a chain for the given context. It serves as the base interface for various types of interceptors, such as method invocation interceptor or request/response processing interceptor.

<b>Signature:</b>

```typescript
export declare type GenericInterceptor<C extends Context = Context> = (context: C, next: Next) => ValueOrPromise<NonVoid>;
```
<b>References:</b> [Context](./context.context.md)<!-- -->, [Next](./context.next.md)<!-- -->, [ValueOrPromise](./context.valueorpromise.md)<!-- -->, [NonVoid](./context.nonvoid.md)

## Remarks

We choose `NonVoid` as the return type to avoid possible bugs that an interceptor forgets to return the value from `next()`<!-- -->. For example, the code below will fail to compile.

```ts
const myInterceptor: Interceptor = async (ctx, next) {
  // preprocessing
  // ...

  // There is a subtle bug that the result from `next()` is not further
  // returned back to the upstream interceptors
  const result = await next();

  // postprocessing
  // ...
  // We must have `return ...` here
  // either return `result` or another value if the interceptor decides to
  // have its own response
}

```