Add debug printing out:

import mod_wsgi
print mod_wsgi.process_group
print mod_wsgi.application_group

This will verify the Python sub interpreter that the patch.py is being loaded 
in. It should be the same as your WSGI application.

Graham

On 12/07/2014, at 3:37 PM, theliuy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Graham,
> 
> My scripts were loaded successfully when mod_wsgi creates processes. I am 
> using Daemon mode, and WSGIImportScript is declared inside of VirtualHost. 
> Thank you a lot. 
> 
> I got another problem, which may be a little bit off topic in this group. I 
> used wrapt.when_imported to register a function when importing flask.app, 
> while it doesn't work. In my application I printed out sys.modules, and found 
> that wrapt and related modules were not there. I also checked sys.meta_path. 
> At the end of the pre-loaded scripts (let's call it patch.py), sys.meta_path 
> had one ImportHookFinder instance, while in my app, sys.meta_path was empty. 
> Looks like after loading patch.py, modules were unloaded and finder objects 
> were cleared. I also found patch.py and the application were running in the 
> same process and both were in the main thread, as what I expected.
> 
> Do you know any solution to it? Looking forward to your reply.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yang
> 
> 
> On Friday, July 4, 2014 3:14:04 PM UTC-7, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> Does it strictly need a WSGI middleware?
> 
> What I have done isn't strictly a WSGI middleware as it just passes things 
> through and doesn't need to wrap access to wsgi.input nor do anything with 
> the response.
> 
> It could easily be modified to do that though if needed.
> 
> You can find an example of a quite deeming logging middleware at:
> 
>     
> http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/DebuggingTechniques#Tracking_Request_and_Response
> 
> Instead of just having:
> 
>     return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
> 
> you would have something like:
> 
>     return LoggingMiddleware(wrapped, '/tmp/wsgi')(*args, **kwargs)
> 
> Graham
> 
> On 05/07/2014, at 8:07 AM, theliuy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Graham,
>> 
>> I tried to implement it as you described. It really helps. Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> What I am trying to do is, I want to listen and log every requests coming to 
>> my applications. I have already made some scripts to analyze the log and 
>> find some interesting requests from specific user, and also built a tool to 
>> mock what he/she did. It is used to reproduce some bugs caused by consequent 
>> calls. I am looking for a way to implement this procedure into other 
>> projects. Since log analyzer and mock tool are offline and flexible, one of 
>> the difficulties is how to log coming requests. Registering it to every 
>> flask app or wsgis needs lots of work, that's why I am looking for a way to 
>> implement a "middleware" between apache/wsgi_mod and flask app.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Yang
>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, July 4, 2014 5:14:49 AM UTC-7, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>> Okay, seems you can now use WSGIImportScript inside of VirtualHost.
>> 
>> A long long time ago this wasn't the case. Seems I fixed it at some point so 
>> that it is now possible but the docs weren't updated. I did look at the code 
>> to try and work it out when I responded but was looking in the wrong place 
>> for what dictates whether the directive can be used in a VirtualHost.
>> 
>> So you don't need to worry about using WSGIScriptAlias at all. You can 
>> always use WSGIImportScript, placing it after the WSGIDaemonProcess 
>> directive for the daemon process group that the WSGIImportScript needs to 
>> refer to, even inside of the VirtualHost.
>> 
>> Graham 
>> 
>> On 04/07/2014, at 9:25 PM, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 04/07/2014, at 7:58 PM, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 04/07/2014, at 5:52 PM, theliuy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> I have several web services using Apache + mod_wsgi + Flask. For some 
>>>>> debug purpose, I want to listen the incoming requests and log them. I 
>>>>> don't want to modify flask applications, or wsgi scripts neither. Because 
>>>>> there are too many existing projects, I can't do it one by one. And they 
>>>>> are going to be deployed in multiple environment, I just need this 
>>>>> feature in one or two of them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> One possible solution come to my mind is to modify Flask framework. 
>>>>> Implement a "logger" inside flask. I think it will be better if I can 
>>>>> find a way to register a script in mod_wsgi. Let mod_wsgi run it whenever 
>>>>> requests are coming.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know if there is any better way to make it. Please give me some 
>>>>> hint. 
>>>> 
>>>> What about the request are you wanting to log exactly and for what purpose?
>>>> 
>>>> I can explain a way of doing what you want which avoids you needing to 
>>>> change either the code of your application, Flask or any other package, 
>>>> but the context of what you are trying to capture and why will help as I 
>>>> will then know what sort of WSGI middleware I will need to employ to 
>>>> capture what you need.
>>>> 
>>>> So if you can respond with that extra information and in the mean time I 
>>>> will validate that my idea for how to do it will work.
>>> 
>>> I would still like to know what you are trying to capture, but if you 
>>> really want to avoid making changes to any existing code or third party 
>>> modules, you can do the following. The technique uses monkey patching, 
>>> employing the `wrapt` library to simplify the process and ensure how the 
>>> monkey patching is done is correct.
>>> 
>>> First up, you need to have the `wrapt` module installed.
>>> 
>>> pip install wrapt
>>> 
>>> Next, create a file called 'patch.py' which contains:
>>> 
>>> from __future__ import print_function
>>> 
>>> from wrapt import when_imported, wrap_function_wrapper
>>> 
>>> def flask_wsgi_app_wrapper(wrapped, instance, args, kwargs):
>>>     def bind_call_args(environ, *args, **kwargs):
>>>         return environ
>>> 
>>>     environ = bind_call_args(*args, **kwargs)
>>> 
>>>     print(10*'>')
>>>     for key in sorted(environ.keys()):
>>>         print('%s: %s' % (key, repr(environ[key])))
>>>     print(10*'<')
>>> 
>>>     return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
>>> 
>>> @when_imported('flask.app')
>>> def instrument_flask_app(module):
>>>     wrap_function_wrapper(module, 'Flask.wsgi_app', flask_wsgi_app_wrapper)
>>> 
>>> What needs to be done now is that this 'patch.py' file has to be imported 
>>> somehow and it ideally needs to be imported before the actual WSGI 
>>> application script file is imported. It preferably would just have been 
>>> imported at the start of the specific WSGI script file for the application 
>>> you want to add debugging to. But since you don't want to do that, then you 
>>> will need to modify the Apache configuration file and use mod_wsgi to 
>>> preload it.
>>> 
>>> What exactly you need to do here may depend on whether you are using 
>>> mod_wsgi embedded mode or daemon mode. If using daemon mode, it may also 
>>> depend on whether the WSGIDaemonProcess directives are specified inside of 
>>> the context of a VirtualHost, or outside at global server scope.
>>> 
>>> The problem here is that the WSGIImportScript can only be defined at global 
>>> server scope. That is, it cannot be specified inside of a VirtualHost, but 
>>> has to be outside.
>>> 
>>> Right now I can't remember the rules about whether a WSGIImportScript can 
>>> refer to a daemon process group specified using WSGIDaemonProcess directive 
>>> inside of a VirtualHost.
>>> 
>>> If it can, then the WSGIImportScript directive will at least have to be 
>>> added after the VirtualHost containing the WSGIDaemonProcess.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, if you are using embedded mode at least, then you need to use the 
>>> WSGIImportScript directive as:
>>> 
>>> WSGIImportScript /some/path/patch.py process-group=%{GLOBAL} 
>>> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
>>> 
>>> The application-group option should be set to the specific application 
>>> group context that the WSGI application you want to debug, is running in.
>>> 
>>> What will happen is that when the Apache child worker processes are started 
>>> up and Python gets initialised, mod_wsgi will preload the patch.py file 
>>> into the Python interpreter.
>>> 
>>> In being imported, the @with_imported decorator will register that the 
>>> instrument_flask_app() function should be called when the 'flask.app' 
>>> module is imported by the WSGI application.
>>> 
>>> When the module is the flask.app module is import, the 
>>> instrument_flask_app() function is executed at that point, it will be 
>>> passed the flask.app module before the import even returns the module to 
>>> the code that imported it. The Flask.wsgi_app() method will then have a 
>>> function wrapper applied using wrap_function_wrapper().
>>> 
>>> Later when handling a WSGI request, the Flask.wsgi_app() will be called. At 
>>> that point the flask_wsgi_app_wrapper() wrapper will actually be called. 
>>> Inside of that we bind the function arguments to extract the 'environ' 
>>> argument passed to the WSGI application entry point for Flask. The wrapper 
>>> function can then print out what it wants from 'environ'. Finally, the 
>>> wrapper will call the original wrapped Flask.wsgi_app() method so the WSGI 
>>> application can handle the request.
>>> 
>>> So that is the principle of how it works, but that Apache configuration 
>>> only works with embedded mode for sure. If using daemon mode we may not be 
>>> able to use WSGIImportScript however and may have to use another trick.
>>> 
>>> For daemon mode therefore, if the WSGIDaemonProcess directive is actually 
>>> specified outside of any VirtualHost, then we can still use 
>>> WSGIImportScript. Thus you would use:
>>> 
>>> WSGIImportScript /some/path/patch.py process-group=group 
>>> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
>>> 
>>> The process-group option would be set to the daemon process group name, and 
>>> application-group option again set to the specific application group 
>>> context that the WSGI application you want to debug, is running in.
>>> 
>>> The WSGIImportScript in this case should come after the WSGIDaemonProcess 
>>> directive it is referring to.
>>> 
>>> Now if the WSGIDaemonProcess group directive is inside of the VirtualHost, 
>>> I am not sure if one can do:
>>> 
>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>> ...
>>> WSGIDaemonProcess group
>>> ...
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>> 
>>> WSGIImportScript /some/path/patch.py process-group=group 
>>> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
>>> 
>>> If that doesn't work, we have to cheat a bit and do:
>>> 
>>> <VirtualHost *:80>
>>> ...
>>> WSGIDaemonProcess group
>>> WSGIScriptAlias /.patch /some/path/patch.py process-group=group 
>>> application-group=%{GLOBAL}
>>> <Location /.patch>
>>> Deny from all
>>> </Location>
>>> ...
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>> 
>>> In other words, we actually use WSGIScriptAlias and the fact that if both 
>>> process-group and application-group are specified, that the WSGI script 
>>> file would normally be preloaded.
>>> 
>>> Since we have to specify a URL as the mount point and there will be no 
>>> actual WSGI application in the script file, then we use a Location block to 
>>> block access to the URL to force a forbidden HTTP response if someone tries 
>>> to access that URL.
>>> 
>>> That therefore represents a technical solution for what I believe you want. 
>>> The question now is if you really need to do what you think you do.
>>> 
>>> Note that if you are really after a monitoring solution for evaluating 
>>> application performance, then there are better ways of doing what you want.
>>> 
>>> If you do try it and have the case of using WSGIDaemonProcess inside of a 
>>> VirtualHost, do tell me if WSGIImportScript outside of the VirtualHost can 
>>> still refer to it. I will try and test it myself, but it isn't convenient 
>>> to do so right now.
>>> 
>>> Graham
>>> 
>> 
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