MiddlewareΒΆ

Middleware provides additional functionality that can be attached to any existing transport or application worker. For example, middleware could log inbound and outbound messages, store delivery reports in a database or modify a message.

Attaching middleware to your transport or application worker is fairly straight forward. Just extend your YAML configuration file with lines like:

middleware:
    - mw1: vumi.middleware.LoggingMiddleware

mw1:
    log_level: info

The middleware section contains a list of middleware items. Each item consists of a name (e.g. mw1) for that middleware instance and a class (e.g. vumi.middleware.LoggingMiddleware) which is the full Python path to the class implementing the middleware. A name can be any string that doesn’t clash with another top-level configuration option – it’s just used to look up the configuration for the middleware itself.

If a middleware class doesn’t require any additional parameters, the configuration section (i.e. the mw1: debug_level ... in the example above) may simply be omitted.

Multiple layers of middleware may be specified as follows:

middleware:
    - mw1: vumi.middleware.LoggingMiddleware
    - mw2: mypackage.CustomMiddleware

You can think of the layers of middleware sitting on top of the underlying transport or application worker. Messages being consumed by the worker enter from the top and are processed by the middleware in the order you have defined them and eventually reach the worker at the bottom. Messages published by the worker start at the bottom and travel up through the layers of middleware before finally exiting the middleware at the top.

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