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Alice
Alice provides a convenient way to chain your HTTP middleware functions and the app handler.
In short, it transforms
Middleware1(Middleware2(Middleware3(App)))
to
alice.New(Middleware1, Middleware2, Middleware3).Then(App)
Why?
None of the other middleware chaining solutions behaves exactly like Alice. Alice is as minimal as it gets: in essence, it's just a for loop that does the wrapping for you.
Check out this blog post for explanation how Alice is different from other chaining solutions.
Usage
Your middleware constructors should have the form of
func (http.Handler) http.Handler
Some middleware provide this out of the box. For ones that don't, it's trivial to write one yourself.
func myStripPrefix(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.StripPrefix("/old", h)
}
This complete example shows the full power of Alice.
package main
import (
"net/http"
"time"
"github.com/throttled/throttled"
"github.com/justinas/alice"
"github.com/justinas/nosurf"
)
func timeoutHandler(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
return http.TimeoutHandler(h, 1*time.Second, "timed out")
}
func myApp(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Write([]byte("Hello world!"))
}
func main() {
th := throttled.Interval(throttled.PerSec(10), 1, &throttled.VaryBy{Path: true}, 50)
myHandler := http.HandlerFunc(myApp)
chain := alice.New(th.Throttle, timeoutHandler, nosurf.NewPure).Then(myHandler)
http.ListenAndServe(":8000", chain)
}
Here, the request will pass throttled first, then an http.TimeoutHandler we've set up, then nosurf and will finally reach our handler.
Note that Alice makes no guarantees for how one or another piece of middleware will behave. Once it passes the execution to the outer layer of middleware, it has no saying in whether middleware will execute the inner handlers. This is intentional behavior.
Alice works with Go 1.0 and higher.
Contributing
- Find an issue that bugs you / open a new one.
- Discuss.
- Branch off, commit, test.
- Make a pull request / attach the commits to the issue.
Documentation
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Overview ¶
Package alice provides a convenient way to chain http handlers.
Index ¶
Constants ¶
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Types ¶
type Chain ¶
type Chain struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Chain acts as a list of http.Handler constructors. Chain is effectively immutable: once created, it will always hold the same set of constructors in the same order.
func New ¶
func New(constructors ...Constructor) Chain
New creates a new chain, memorizing the given list of middleware constructors. New serves no other function, constructors are only called upon a call to Then().
func (Chain) Append ¶
func (c Chain) Append(constructors ...Constructor) Chain
Append extends a chain, adding the specified constructors as the last ones in the request flow.
Append returns a new chain, leaving the original one untouched.
stdChain := alice.New(m1, m2) extChain := stdChain.Append(m3, m4) // requests in stdChain go m1 -> m2 // requests in extChain go m1 -> m2 -> m3 -> m4
func (Chain) Extend ¶
Extend extends a chain by adding the specified chain as the last one in the request flow.
Extend returns a new chain, leaving the original one untouched.
stdChain := alice.New(m1, m2) ext1Chain := alice.New(m3, m4) ext2Chain := stdChain.Extend(ext1Chain) // requests in stdChain go m1 -> m2 // requests in ext1Chain go m3 -> m4 // requests in ext2Chain go m1 -> m2 -> m3 -> m4
Another example:
aHtmlAfterNosurf := alice.New(m2)
aHtml := alice.New(m1, func(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
csrf := nosurf.New(h)
csrf.SetFailureHandler(aHtmlAfterNosurf.ThenFunc(csrfFail))
return csrf
}).Extend(aHtmlAfterNosurf)
// requests to aHtml hitting nosurfs success handler go m1 -> nosurf -> m2 -> target-handler
// requests to aHtml hitting nosurfs failure handler go m1 -> nosurf -> m2 -> csrfFail
func (Chain) Then ¶
Then chains the middleware and returns the final http.Handler.
New(m1, m2, m3).Then(h)
is equivalent to:
m1(m2(m3(h)))
When the request comes in, it will be passed to m1, then m2, then m3 and finally, the given handler (assuming every middleware calls the following one).
A chain can be safely reused by calling Then() several times.
stdStack := alice.New(ratelimitHandler, csrfHandler) indexPipe = stdStack.Then(indexHandler) authPipe = stdStack.Then(authHandler)
Note that constructors are called on every call to Then() and thus several instances of the same middleware will be created when a chain is reused in this way. For proper middleware, this should cause no problems.
Then() treats nil as http.DefaultServeMux.
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