package middlewares import ( "context" "github.com/muety/wakapi/models" "net/http" ) const keyPrincipal = "principal" type PrincipalContainer struct { principal *models.User } func (c *PrincipalContainer) SetPrincipal(user *models.User) { c.principal = user } func (c *PrincipalContainer) GetPrincipal() *models.User { return c.principal } func (c *PrincipalContainer) GetPrincipalIdentity() string { return c.principal.Identity() } // This middleware is a bit of a dirty workaround to the fact that a http.Request's context // does not allow to pass values from an inner to an outer middleware. Calling WithContext() on a // request shallow-copies the whole request itself and therefore, in a chain of handler1(handler2()), // handler 1 will not have access to values handler 2 writes to its context. In addition, Context.WithValue // returns a new context with the old context as a parent. // // As a concrete example, SentryMiddleware as well as LoggingMiddleware should be quite the outer layers, // while AuthenticationMiddleware is on the very inside of the chain. However, we still want sentry or the // logger to have access to the user object populated by the auth. middleware, if present. // // This middleware shall be included as the outermost layers and it injects a stateful container that does // nothing but conditionally hold a reference to an authenticated user object. // // Other reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55972869/send-errors-to-sentry-with-golang-and-mux type PrincipalMiddleware struct { handler http.Handler } func NewPrincipalMiddleware() func(handler http.Handler) http.Handler { return func(h http.Handler) http.Handler { return &PrincipalMiddleware{handler: h} } } func (p *PrincipalMiddleware) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { ctx := context.WithValue(r.Context(), keyPrincipal, &PrincipalContainer{}) p.handler.ServeHTTP(w, r.WithContext(ctx)) } func SetPrincipal(r *http.Request, user *models.User) { if p := r.Context().Value(keyPrincipal); p != nil { p.(*PrincipalContainer).SetPrincipal(user) } } func GetPrincipal(r *http.Request) *models.User { if p := r.Context().Value(keyPrincipal); p != nil { return p.(*PrincipalContainer).GetPrincipal() } return nil }