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// Copyright 2015 The LUCI Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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// Package gaemiddleware provides a standard middleware for first-gen Appengine
// apps.
//
// The gaemiddleware package itself provides a generic Environment class and
// common implementations of methods. An Environment matching your AppEngine
// environment configuration (e.g., standard, flex) should be chosen from a
// sub-package.
//
// Deprecated: many parts of this package don't work at all on the GAE
// second-gen runtime. Instead use go.chromium.org/luci/server in combination
// with go.chromium.org/luci/server/gaeemulation module to get Cloud Datastore
// support.
//
// This middleware configures the request environment to use GAE-based services
// (like datastore via luci/gae package, logging and many more).
//
// For full functionality, the "default" module of a GAE application must be
// running on an AppEngine Standard instance, and must have handlers installed
// (via "standard.InstallHandlers").
//
// The minimal usage example (from GAE standard):
// import (
// ...
//
// "go.chromium.org/luci/appengine/gaemiddleware/standard"
// "go.chromium.org/luci/common/logging"
// "go.chromium.org/luci/server/router"
// )
//
// func init() {
// r := router.New()
// standard.InstallHandlers(r)
//
// r.GET("/", standard.Base(), indexPage)
//
// http.DefaultServeMux.Handle("/", r)
// }
//
// func indexPage(c *router.Context) {
// logging.Infof(c.Context, "Handling the page")
// ...
// }
//
// It registers various routes required for LUCI framework functionality in the
// router, and sets up an application route (indexPage) configured to use GAE
// services.
//
// Handlers setup
//
// Some default registered routes are intended for use only by administrators or
// internally by GAE itself (crons, task queues). While LUCI framework does
// authorization checks itself, it is still recommended that you protect such
// routes on app.yaml level with "login: admin" check, to make GAE reject
// unauthorized access earlier.
//
// In contrast, the rest of the routes (end-user facing HTML pages, API
// handlers) usually use LUCI's authentication framework (to support OAuth2
// tokens, among other things), and for that reason they must not use
// "login: required" or "login: admin", since in that case GAE will enable its
// own cookie-based authentication mechanism (that doesn't work with OAuth2).
//
// Thus the recommended handlers list is:
// handlers:
// - url: /(internal|admin)/.*
// script: _go_app
// secure: always
// login: admin
//
// - url: /.*
// script: _go_app
// secure: always
//
// See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/config/appref for
// more info about app.yaml.
//
// Cron setup
//
// Some of the default LUCI services installed in BaseProd require cron jobs
// for their operation.
//
// InstallHandlers call registers the cron handlers in the HTTP router, but GAE
// still has to be instructed to actually call them.
//
// This can done by adding following jobs to cron.yaml file of your project:
//
// - description: "tsmon housekeeping task"
// url: /internal/cron/ts_mon/housekeeping
// schedule: every 1 minutes
//
// See https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/config/cronref for
// more information about cron.yaml.
package gaemiddleware