This middleware creates a single WSGI application that dispatches to multiple other WSGI applications mounted at different URL paths.
A common example is writing a Single Page Application, where you have a backend API and a frontend written in JavaScript that does the routing in the browser rather than requesting different pages from the server. The frontend is a single HTML and JS file that should be served for any path besides "/api".
This example dispatches to an API app under "/api", an admin app under "/admin", and an app that serves frontend files for all other requests:
app = DispatcherMiddleware(serve_frontend, { '/api': api_app, '/admin': admin_app, })
In production, you might instead handle this at the HTTP server level, serving files or proxying to application servers based on location. The API and admin apps would each be deployed with a separate WSGI server, and the static files would be served directly by the HTTP server.
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2007 Pallets | |
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BSD-3-Clause |
Class | ​Dispatcher​Middleware |
Combine multiple applications as a single WSGI application. Requests are dispatched to an application based on the path it is mounted under. |