flask-restful - resource class for current request

Question

THE QUESTION

All of my app's routes are defined via flask-restful Resources. How can I find the resource object/class that is processing current request?

WHY I WANT THIS

I wanted to log all exceptions raised while processing requests. I connect to flask.got_request_exception, as described in http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/api/#signals and something like this works well:

from flask import got_request_exception, request

def log_exception(sender, exception, **extra):
    logger.info("URL: {}, Exception: {}".format(request.url, type(exception).__name__))

got_request_exception.connect(log_exception, app)

The only problem is that I want to log some of the request data, but not all the data - e.g. I'd like to hide passwords. I think it would be a good idea to have logging-data-logic together with request processing logic, like this:

from flask import request
import flask_restful

class SomeResource(flask_restful.Resource):
    def get(self):
        # ... GET processing
    def log_data(self):
        # log all body params
        return request.get_json()

class Login(flask_restful.Resource):
   def post(self):
       # ... authentication
   def log_data(self):
       # log selected body params
       return {'login': request.get_json()['login'], 'password': 'HIDDEN!'}

and than use it in my log_exception:

from flask import got_request_exception, request

def log_exception(sender, exception, **extra):
    resource_class = # THIS IS THE THING I'M MISSING
    logger.info("URL: {}, Exception: {}, Data: {}".format(request.url, type(exception).__name__), 
                resource_class.log_data())

got_request_exception.connect(log_exception, app) 

But maybe this should be done other way?

Answer 1

Instead of inheriting from flask_restful.Resource your want to inherit all from a custom resource

class MyResource(flask_restful.Resource):
    def dispatch_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return super(MyResource,self).dispatch_request(*args, **kwargs)
        except Exception as ex:
            setattr(ex, "_raised_by", self)
            raise ex

and then you can use the exception handler

def log_exception(sender, exception, **extra):
    _raised_by = getattr(exception, "_raised_by", None)
    if _raised_by:
        print(_raised_by)
    property("URL: {}, Exception: {}".format(request.url, type(exception).__name__))

Here is complete code I tried

from flask import request, Flask
import flask_restful

app = Flask(__name__)

api = flask_restful.Api(app)


class MyResource(flask_restful.Resource):
    def dispatch_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return super(MyResource,self).dispatch_request(*args, **kwargs)
        except Exception as ex:
            setattr(ex, "_raised_by", self)
            raise ex

# MyResource = flask_restful.Resource

class SomeResource(MyResource):
    def get(self):
        raise Exception("Not implemented")

    def log_data(self):
        # log all body params
        return request.get_json()


class Login(MyResource):
    def post(self):
        raise Exception("Not implemented")

    def log_data(self):
        # log selected body params
        return {'login': request.get_json()['login'], 'password': 'HIDDEN!'}


from flask import got_request_exception, request

api.add_resource(Login, '/login')
api.add_resource(SomeResource, '/some')


def log_exception(sender, exception, **extra):
    _raised_by = getattr(exception, "_raised_by", None)
    if _raised_by:
        print(_raised_by)
    property("URL: {}, Exception: {}".format(request.url, type(exception).__name__))


got_request_exception.connect(log_exception, app)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Edit-1: 5th Aug

As commented by @jbet, in case one wants to get the processing class always a cleaner option would be to use the MyResource as below

from flask import g

class MyResource(flask_restful.Resource):
    def dispatch_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
        g.processed_by = self
        return super(MyResource,self).dispatch_request(*args, **kwargs)