[Web-SIG] Alternative to threading.local, based on the stack

[Manlio Perillo]

Ian Bicking ha scritto:
> Manlio Perillo wrote:
> [...]
>>
>> As an example, in Paste you have choosed to using config dictionary 
>> for middleware configuration, that is, you have middleware factories.
> 
> I think this is a red herring.  WebOb specifically doesn't do anything 
> related to configuration or the setup of the stack.  What it does do is 
> stuff like:
> 
> expires = http.format_time(0)
> http.generate_cookie(
>     environ, headers, name, '', expires=expires,
>     domain=cookie_domain(environ), path=path,
>     max_age=0)
> 
> which would be resp.delete_cookie(name) (well, cookie_domain seems to be 
> derived from a setting, but that's mostly unrelated).  This isn't a 
> particularly substantial difference, but these small conveniences add up.
> 

As I have said, this is a personal taste, I don't like the 
"architecture" used by WebOb and prefer to directly use the environ 
dictionary without introducing other abstractions.
This is possible, I'm writing a "not simple" application using wsgix.


I'm still evaluating if I can reuse WebOb parsing functions (and this 
would be a great thing: I think that we *really* need a package with 
*only* low *level* parsing functions for the HTTP protocol).

 From what I can see, WebOb *does* not offer a low level interface for 
the parsers: you *have* to use the Request object.

I really like multilevel architectures, instead.




Manlio Perillo