Middlewares

Middlewares are used to defined actions before and after each request. For example, if we want to authenticate the context before it gets into the context, we can define a middleware as this:

Go

func AuthMiddleware(next golf.Handler) golf.Handler {
  fn := func(ctx *golf.Context) {
    if authenticate(ctx) {
      next(ctx)
    } else {
      NotFoundHandler(ctx)
    }
  }
  return fn
}

After the middleware is defined, we need to define a middleware chain. A middleware chain contains a sequence of middlewares. Middlewares in the middleware chain will be called as the defined sequence.

To apply a handler to a middleware chain and pass it to a route, we need to call the Final method of the chain:

Go

authChain := golf.NewChain(handler.AuthMiddleware)

App.Get("/admin/", authChain.Final(handler.AdminHandler))
App.Get("/admin/settings/", authChain.Final(handler.AdminSettingsHandler))