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Middleware Recipe

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

{{< embed "middleware/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/2.0

Body

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

Maintainers

• vishr

[Source Code]({{< source "middleware" >}})