Added new configuration, important_middleware, which gets applied very early in the middleware stack

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/paste/default_config.conf b/paste/default_config.conf
index 40fa146..2812bc1 100644
--- a/paste/default_config.conf
+++ b/paste/default_config.conf
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ framework = 'default'
 # The first middleware in this list is wrapped most closely around
 # the application:
 middleware = []
+# This middleware comes right after config_middleware, and before all
+# other middleware:
+important_middleware = []
 port = 8080
 host = 'localhost'
 verbose = False
diff --git a/paste/makeapp.py b/paste/makeapp.py
index fddc254..9beae7b 100644
--- a/paste/makeapp.py
+++ b/paste/makeapp.py
@@ -33,5 +33,11 @@ def apply_default_middleware(app, conf):
     app = errormiddleware.ErrorMiddleware(app)
     if conf.get('lint', False):
         app = lint.middleware(app)
+    for middleware in conf.get('important_middleware', []):
+        if isinstance(middleware, (str, unicode)):
+            middleware = import_string.eval_import(middleware)
+        app = middleware(app)
+        if conf.get('lint', False):
+            app = lint.middleware(app)
     app = configmiddleware.ConfigMiddleware(app, conf)
     return app