import threading
class ThreadRequestContext(object):
"""A context manager that saves some per-thread state globally.
Intended for use with Tornado's StackContext.
Provide arbitrary data as kwargs upon creation,
then use ThreadRequestContext.data to access it.
"""
_state = threading.local()
_state.data = {}
class __metaclass__(type):
# property() doesn't work on classmethods,
# see http://stackoverflow.com/q/128573/1231454
@property
def data(cls):
if not hasattr(cls._state, 'data'):
return {}
return cls._state.data
def __init__(self, **data):
self._data = data
def __enter__(self):
self._prev_data = self.__class__.data
self.__class__._state.data = self._data
def __exit__(self, *exc):
self.__class__._state.data = self._prev_data
del self._prev_data
return False
import tornado
class RequestContextHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
def _execute(self, transforms, *args, **kwargs):
# following the example of:
# https://github.com/bdarnell/tornado_tracing/blob/master/tornado_tracing/recording.py
global_data = {} # add whatever here, e.g. self.request
with tornado.stack_context.StackContext(functools.partial(ThreadRequestContext, **global_data)):
super(RequestContextHandler, self)._execute(transforms, *args, **kwargs)
# elsewhere, use ThreadRequestContext.data => a dict