Understanding the middleware architecture in the Definable backend
BaseHTTPMiddleware
class, which FastAPI inherits from. Each middleware follows a consistent pattern:
Manager
class, which scans the middlewares
directory for Python files:
app.py
for handling Cross-Origin Resource Sharingexceptions.py
middleware provides centralized error handling for the application:
ratelimit.py
middleware implements a sliding window rate limiter to prevent API abuse:
app.py
:
RBAC
and JWTBearer
)src/middlewares/
directoryMiddleware
that inherits from BaseHTTPMiddleware
__init__
and dispatch
methodsAcquire
class for dependenciesJWTBearer
and RBAC
), security-related middlewares could be added for: