Discussion on: 5 reasons why people are choosing Masonite over Django

[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!

[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