// Package middleware provides some types and functions common among middleware. package middleware import "net/http" type ( // Generator represents the outer layer of a middleware that // parses tokens to configure the middleware instance. // // Note: This type will be moved into a different package in the future. Generator func(Controller) (Middleware, error) // Middleware is the middle layer which represents the traditional // idea of middleware: it chains one Handler to the next by being // passed the next Handler in the chain. // // Note: This type will be moved into a different package in the future. Middleware func(Handler) Handler // Handler is like http.Handler except ServeHTTP returns a status code // and an error. The status code is for the client's benefit; the error // value is for the server's benefit. The status code will be sent to // the client while the error value will be logged privately. Sometimes, // an error status code (4xx or 5xx) may be returned with a nil error // when there is no reason to log the error on the server. // // If a HandlerFunc returns an error (status >= 400), it should NOT // write to the response. This philosophy makes middleware.Handler // different from http.Handler: error handling should happen at the // application layer or in dedicated error-handling middleware only // rather than with an "every middleware for itself" paradigm. // // The application or error-handling middleware should incorporate logic // to ensure that the client always gets a proper response according to // the status code. For security reasons, it should probably not reveal // the actual error message. (Instead it should be logged, for example.) // // Handlers which do write to the response should return a status value // < 400 as a signal that a response has been written. In other words, // only error-handling middleware or the application will write to the // response for a status code >= 400. When ANY handler writes to the // response, it should return a status code < 400 to signal others to // NOT write to the response again, which would be erroneous. Handler interface { ServeHTTP(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) (int, error) } // A Controller provides access to properties of the server. Middleware // generators use a Controller to construct their instances. Controller interface { Dispenser // Startup registers a function to execute when the server starts. Startup(func() error) // Shutdown registers a function to execute when the server exits. Shutdown(func() error) // Root returns the file path from which the server is serving. Root() string // Context returns the path scope that the Controller is in. // Note: This is not currently used, but may be in the future. Context() Path } // A Dispenser provides structured access to tokens from a configuration // file. It dispenses tokens to middleware for parsing so that middleware // can configure themselves. Dispenser interface { // Next loads the next token. Returns true if a token // was loaded; false otherwise. If false, all tokens // have already been consumed. Next() bool // NextArg loads the next token if it is on the same // line. Returns true if a token was loaded; false // otherwise. If false, all tokens on the line have // been consumed. NextArg() bool // NextLine loads the next token only if it is NOT on the same // line as the current token, and returns true if a token was // loaded; false otherwise. If false, there is not another token // or it is on the same line. NextLine() bool // NextBlock can be used as the condition of a for loop // to load the next token as long as it opens a block or // is already in a block. It returns true if a token was // loaded, or false when the block's closing curly brace // was loaded and thus the block ended. Nested blocks are // not (currently) supported. NextBlock() bool // Val gets the text of the current token. Val() string // Args is a convenience function that loads the next arguments // (tokens on the same line) into an arbitrary number of strings // pointed to in arguments. If there are fewer tokens available // than string pointers, the remaining strings will not be changed // and false will be returned. If there were enough tokens available // to fill the arguments, then true will be returned. Args(...*string) bool // RemainingArgs loads any more arguments (tokens on the same line) // into a slice and returns them. Open curly brace tokens also indicate // the end of arguments, and the curly brace is not included in // the return value nor is it loaded. RemainingArgs() []string // ArgErr returns an argument error, meaning that another // argument was expected but not found. In other words, // a line break, EOF, or open curly brace was encountered instead of // an argument. ArgErr() error // Err generates a custom parse error with a message of msg. Err(string) error } ) // HandlerFunc is a convenience type like http.HandlerFunc, except // ServeHTTP returns a status code and an error. See Handler // documentation for more information. type HandlerFunc func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) (int, error) // ServeHTTP implements the Handler interface. func (f HandlerFunc) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (int, error) { return f(w, r) }