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A lightweight RESTful web framework for Go
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Would be nice to be able to add custom data to the Context to share during the request lifetime #29

Closed oleksandr closed 11 years ago

oleksandr commented 11 years ago

This could be a good example: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/pkg/context

Thus in the request handling chain (Before -> Controller's Method -> After) it would be really easy to share the data.

As an example we use:

  1. Before: parse Authorization header, extract Token if available, fetch the corresponding user/session data, assign to context such as context.Set(CURRENT_USER_KEY, userStructure)
  2. Controller's method just performs the check context.Get(CURRENT_USER_KEY) != nil

This would help to avoid duplication of code especially related to authentication...

oleksandr commented 11 years ago

It seems that is already possible with c.Data().Set/Get, right?

matryer commented 11 years ago

Right, the context.Data thing is exactly for that. Goweb ignores the Data object.

It's an objects.Map from the http://godoc.org/github.com/stretchr/stew/objects package.