how do I write a middleware for tornado?

Question

Every request to a handler in my tornado app need to check and validate a key before it processes the request. How could I create a middleware class in Tornado which would check and validate the key before if processes the request?

My middleware class function would look something like this.

class Checker(object):

    def process_request(self, request):
        try:
            key = request.META['HTTP_X_KEY']
        except KeyError:
            key = None

        if key and key == os.environ.get('KEY'):
            #Process the request
            return None
        #Redirect to Home Page
        return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect('http://google.com', status=301)

Answer 1

It is possible to use decorator:

from functools import wraps
def check_key(f):
    @wraps(f)
    def wrapper(self, request):
        try:
            key = request.META['HTTP_X_KEY']
        except KeyError:
            key = None
        if key and key == os.environ.get('KEY'):
            #Process the request
            f(self, request)
            return None
        #Redirect to Home Page
        return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect('http://google.com', status=301)
    return wrapper

class Checker(object):
   @check_key
   def process_request(self, request):
      ...