I tried to think of this today in terms of creating a "deployment spec"
but boy, it gets complicated if you want a lot of useful features out of
it. I have about four or five pages of a straw man "deployment
configuration" proposal, but it makes way too many assumptions.
So I tried to boil the pr
At 03:28 AM 7/17/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>What I think you actually need is a way to create WSGI application
>>objects with a "context" object. The "context" object would have a
>>method like "get_service(name)", and if it didn't find the service, it
>>would ask i
At 07:29 AM 7/17/2005 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
>I'm a bit confused because one of the canonical examples of
>how WSGI middleware is useful seems to be the example of implementing a
>framework-agnostic sessioning service. And for that sessioning service
>to be useful, your application has to b
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 03:16 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> This is what Paste does in configuration, like:
>
> middleware.extend([
> SessionMiddleware, IdentificationMiddleware,
> AuthenticationMiddleware, ChallengeMiddleware])
>
> This kind of middleware takes a single argument, which is
On 17/07/2005, at 6:16 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
>> The pipeline itself isn't really late bound. For instance, if I was
>> to
>> create a WSGI middleware pipeline something like this:
>>
>>server <--> session <--> identification <--> authentication <-->
>><--> challenge <--> application
>>
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 01:57 PM 7/11/2005 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
>
>> Lately I've been thinking about the role of Paste and WSGI and whatnot.
>> Much of what makes a Paste component Pastey is configuration;
>> otherwise the bits are just independent pieces of middleware, WSGI
>> applicati
Chris McDonough wrote:
>>Because middleware can't be introspected (generally), this makes things
>>like configuration schemas very hard to implement. It all needs to be
>>late-bound.
>
>
> The pipeline itself isn't really late bound. For instance, if I was to
> create a WSGI middleware pipeli
