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Golang: How To Setup Basic Middleware With Golang Echo Framework

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Published · Oct 24 2019

  

ECHO Framework is providing many middleware that supports logger, recover,JWT and basichAuth. You can call Middleware with routes or groups.
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Overview
Middleware is a function chained in the HTTP request-response cycle with access to Echo#Context which it uses to perform a specific action, for example, logging every request or limiting the number of requests.
Handler is processed in the end after all middleware are finished executing.
Levels
Root Level (Before router)
Echo#Pre() can be used to register a middleware which is executed before router processes the request. It is helpful to make any changes to the request properties, for example, adding or removing a trailing slash from the path so it matches the route.
The following built-in middleware should be registered at this level:
HTTPSRedirect
HTTPSWWWRedirect
WWWRedirect
NonWWWRedirect
AddTrailingSlash
RemoveTrailingSlash
MethodOverride
Rewrite
Root Level (After router)
Most of the time you will register a middleware at this level using Echo#Use(). This middleware is executed after router processes the request and has full access to echo.Context API.
The following built-in middleware should be registered at this level:
BodyLimit
Logger
Gzip
Recover
BasicAuth
JWTAuth
Secure
CORS
Static
Group Level
When creating a new group, you can register middleware just for that group. For example, you can have an admin group which is secured by registering a BasicAuth middleware for it.
Usage
e := echo.New()
admin := e.Group("/admin", middleware.BasicAuth())

You can also add a middleware after creating a group via admin.Use().
Route Level
When defining a new route, you can optionally register middleware just for it.
Usage
e := echo.New() e.GET("/", <Handler>, <Middleware...>)

Skipping Middleware
There are cases when you would like to skip a middleware based on some condition, for that each middleware has an option to define a function Skipper func(c echo.Context) bool.
Usage
e := echo.New()
e.Use(middleware.LoggerWithConfig(middleware.LoggerConfig{
	Skipper: func(c echo.Context) bool {
		if strings.HasPrefix(c.Request().Host, "localhost") {
			return true
		}
		return false
	},
}))

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Writing Custom Middleware
How to write a custom middleware?
Middleware to collect request count, statuses and uptime.
Middleware to write custom Server header to the response.
Server
server.go

Response
Headers
Content-Length:122 Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8 Date:Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:31:46 GMT Server:Echo/3.0 

Body
{ "uptime": "2016-04-14T13:28:48.486548936-07:00", "requestCount": 5, "statuses": { "200": 4, "404": 1 } } 


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