Get starlette request body in the middleware context

Question

I have such middleware

class RequestContext(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
    async def dispatch(self, request: Request, call_next: RequestResponseEndpoint):
        request_id = request_ctx.set(str(uuid4()))  # generate uuid to request
        body = await request.body()
        if body:
            logger.info(...)  # log request with body
        else:
            logger.info(...)  # log request without body
 
        response = await call_next(request)
        response.headers['X-Request-ID'] = request_ctx.get()
        logger.info("%s" % (response.status_code))
        request_ctx.reset(request_id)

        return response

So the line body = await request.body() freezes all requests that have body and I have 504 from all of them. How can I safely read the request body in this context? I just want to log request parameters.

Answer 1

I would not create a Middleware that inherits from BaseHTTPMiddleware since it has some issues, FastAPI gives you a opportunity to create your own routers, in my experience this approach is way better.

from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI, Request, Response, Body
from fastapi.routing import APIRoute

from typing import Callable, List
from uuid import uuid4


class ContextIncludedRoute(APIRoute):
    def get_route_handler(self) -> Callable:
        original_route_handler = super().get_route_handler()

        async def custom_route_handler(request: Request) -> Response:
            request_id = str(uuid4())
            response: Response = await original_route_handler(request)

            if await request.body():
                print(await request.body())

            response.headers["Request-ID"] = request_id
            return response

        return custom_route_handler


app = FastAPI()
router = APIRouter(route_class=ContextIncludedRoute)


@router.post("/context")
async def non_default_router(bod: List[str] = Body(...)):
    return bod


app.include_router(router)

Works as expected.

b'["string"]'
INFO:     127.0.0.1:49784 - "POST /context HTTP/1.1" 200 OK