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Joseph Mancuso

Fair points. I'll update my post.

As for the Django middleware example, how do you only execute it before or after the request with this style? What would be an example of middleware executing after a request?

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Yoong Kang Lim • Edited

I'm not sure what you mean by "before" a request -- the whole request/response cycle is initiated by a request from the client, anything before that is outside the cycle.

There are hooks you can use for when the request has started (but hasn't finished), or after a http response has been sent to the client (docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/...), but I must say I've never used them. If I needed to be doing that, I'd be writing WSGI middleware instead, or using something like Celery/Django Channels to do a task asynchronously.

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Joseph Mancuso

yeah been a while since I personally used Django. I think it was beginning of 1.11ish I believe. Just trying to see if there's something comparable to the Masonite middleware example above where its:

--> execute a "before" middleware (cleaning the request, setting some variables on some classes, redirecting for auth, etc)

--> execute the controller method (django view)

--> execute an "after" middleware (setting response headers, setting status code, converting controller method response (i.e dictionary to json converting) etc)

Thanks though!

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Yoong Kang Lim

Hmm, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but:

--> execute a "before" middleware (cleaning the request, setting some variables on some classes, redirecting for auth, etc)

You mean like this?

def global_auth_middleware(get_response):
    def middleware(request):

        if not request.user.is_authenticated:
            return redirect('/login/')
        # before logic here
        request.some_property = Property.objects.get(request['HTTP_X_PROPERTY_ID'])
        return get_response(request)
    return middleware

--> execute an "after" middleware (setting response headers, setting status code, converting controller method response (i.e dictionary to json converting) etc)

Could be something like this.

def global_auth_middleware(get_response):
    def middleware(request):
        if not request.user.is_authenticated:
            return redirect('/login/')
        # 'after' logic here
        response = get_response(request)
        response['X-Custom-Header'] = 'somevalue'
        return response
    return middleware