Creating custom middleware

Middleware functions are just functions that take in a next function and return a function. We are able to do this in Go because functions are first-class citizens, and they can be used as variables. By using this idea, we are able to use regular functions as parameters to middleware functions.

In order to create custom middleware for use within the Echo framework, all we need to do is create a function that conforms to the echo.MiddlewareFunc type, which is as follows:

type MiddlewareFunc func(HandlerFunc) HandlerFunc

The echo.MiddlewareFunc type which defines what a middleware should be is simply a function which takes a next parameter and returns a handler function. In the following example, we are creating a custom middleware which will assign a unique ID to every request that is made, and set our generated unique ID into the echo.Context for use in later stages of the request pipeline. The following code is found in the $GOPATH/src/github.com/PacktPublishing...