Note: additional info on WSGI and middleware in Pylons can be found in the document Web Server Gateway Interface Support.
Adding your own middleware
As Ian Bicking (creator of "Paste") said: "Middleware is where people get a little intimidated by WSGI and Paste." But if you understand the very basics of WSGI and how the actual HTTP request is passed around it is not that scaring any more. A good introduction is given by Ian's A Do-It-Yourself Framework article
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A very simple piece of middleware:
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def __init__(self, app):
self.app = app
def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
return ['This request passed through MyMiddleware'] + self.app(environ, start_response)
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This will prepend all pages that are sent to the browser with the sentence "This request passed through MyMiddleware". To plug into your application just add the following line in your middleware.py where it reads "Put your own middleware here":
(Re-)Start your application and request a URL. You should see your sentence at the top.
Of course this is just a Hello-World-style example. There are much better uses for middleware. Check out the section on middleware in Ian's article for more information.
