Right now i am using Gorilla context package to pass data around in my middlewares & controllers, but what i want to do is pass the data directly to my Pongo2 template so later in my controller i don't have to get the data from the Gorilla context and manually pass it to the template context, for those of you familiar with express.js it would be like
var user = {
name: "Name",
age: 0
}
response.locals = user
Edit: So every pongo2 template needs access to a User object, right now i fetch the user from database using middleware and using Gorilla context pass the data to my controller, from there on to my template on each controller but what i want to do is pass the User object to template from my middleware instead of using Gorilla context.
func UserMiddleware(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return http.HandlerFunc(func(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
user := &User{} // user will normally be fetched from database
context.Set(req, "user", user)
next.ServeHTTP(res, req)
})
}
Then In My Request Handler
func Handler(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
tpl, _ := pongo2.FromFile("view/template.html")
user := context.Get(req, "user").(*User)
data := pongo2.Context{
"user": user,
}
out, _ := tpl.Execute(data)
res.Write([]byte(out))
}
For all of my handlers i have to pass in user to template like that, but i want to pass it in from my middleware so that i don't have to do it in each of my handlers.