[Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

[Ian Bicking]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:

> > I propose to write in the PEP that a middleware should provide an
> > "app" attribute to get the wrapped application or middleware.
> > It seems to be the most common name used out there.
>
> We can't really mandate this because middleware is not required to be an
> instance.  It can be a function.
>

We could suggest it, and suggest the attribute name.  Composites, lazy
loading middleware, or a bunch of other situations can break it... but it's
nice for introspection tools to at least be able to attempt to run down the
chain.  Middleware is almost always a closure if it's a function, I believe,
so you could still do:

def caps(app):
    def replacement_app(environ):
        status, headers, body = app(environ)
        body = [''.join(body).upper()]
        return status, headers, body
    replacement_app.app = app
    return replacement_app

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