#33716: async middleware can be a regular function too
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     Reporter:  abetkin        |                    Owner:  nobody
         Type:  Bug            |                   Status:  new
    Component:  Uncategorized  |                  Version:  4.0
     Severity:  Normal         |               Resolution:
     Keywords:                 |             Triage Stage:  Accepted
    Has patch:  0              |      Needs documentation:  0
  Needs tests:  0              |  Patch needs improvement:  0
Easy pickings:  0              |                    UI/UX:  0
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Description changed by abetkin:

Old description:

> Here is what we have in MiddlewareMixin:
>
> {{{
>     def _async_check(self):
>         """
>         If get_response is a coroutine function, turns us into async mode
> so
>         a thread is not consumed during a whole request.
>         """
>         if asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(self.get_response):
>             # Mark the class as async-capable, but do the actual switch
>             # inside __call__ to avoid swapping out dunder methods
>             self._is_coroutine = asyncio.coroutines._is_coroutine
>         else:
>             self._is_coroutine = None
> }}}
>
> This checks if the next middleware is a coroutine, and if not fallbacks
> to sync mode. However, I think this is redundant: if the middleware is
> async-capable, and we have an ASGI request, what else we need ti check?
>
> The downside of _async_check is that this common usecase is not
> supported:
>

> {{{
> def MyMiddleware(get_response):
>
>     def middleware(request):
>         # Do some stuff with request that does not involve I/O
>         request.vip_user = True
>         return get_response(request)
>
>     return middleware
>
> MyMiddleware.async_capable=True
> }}}
>
> middleware(request) will return the response in sync case and a coroutine
> in the async case, despite being a regular function (because get_response
> is a coroutine function in the latter case).
>
> Here is a patch that I use that explains a possible way to fix it:
>

> {{{
> def call_mw(mw, request, _call_mw=MiddlewareMixin.__call__):
>     if isinstance(request, ASGIRequest) and mw.async_capable:
>         return mw.__acall__(request)
>     return _call_mw(mw, request)
>

> MiddlewareMixin.__call__ = call_mw
> }}}
>

> Github project that shows the error: https://github.com/pwtail/django_bug

New description:

 Here is what we have in MiddlewareMixin:

 {{{
     def _async_check(self):
         """
         If get_response is a coroutine function, turns us into async mode
 so
         a thread is not consumed during a whole request.
         """
         if asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(self.get_response):
             # Mark the class as async-capable, but do the actual switch
             # inside __call__ to avoid swapping out dunder methods
             self._is_coroutine = asyncio.coroutines._is_coroutine
         else:
             self._is_coroutine = None
 }}}

 This checks if the next middleware is a coroutine, and if not fallbacks to
 sync mode. However, I think this is redundant: if the middleware is async-
 capable, and we have an ASGI request, what else we need ti check?

 The downside of _async_check is that this common usecase is not supported:


 {{{
 def MyMiddleware(get_response):

     def middleware(request):
         # Do some stuff with request that does not involve I/O
         request.vip_user = True
         return get_response(request)

     return middleware

 MyMiddleware.async_capable=True
 }}}

 middleware(request) will return the response in sync case and a coroutine
 in the async case, despite being a regular function (because get_response
 is a coroutine function in the latter case).

 Here is a patch that I use that explains a possible way to fix it:


 {{{
 def is_next_middleware_async_capable(mw):
     path = f'{mw.__class__.__module__}.{mw.__class__.__name__}'
     next_index = settings.MIDDLEWARE.index(path) + 1
     mw_class = import_string(settings.MIDDLEWARE[next_index])
     return mw_class.async_capable


 def call_mw(mw, request, _call_mw=MiddlewareMixin.__call__):
     if isinstance(request, ASGIRequest) and
 is_next_middleware_async_capable(mw):
         return mw.__acall__(request)
     return _call_mw(mw, request)


 MiddlewareMixin.__call__ = call_mw
 }}}


 Github project that shows the error: https://github.com/pwtail/django_bug

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