Sleep middleware

[josharian]

It is useful to be able to simulate slow response times from a server -- for example, to see what a mobile client ui will look like when the connection is poor.

A sleep-every-request middleware makes that very easy. The middleware is easy to write, but given how common a task it is, it might be worth having packaged with Django contrib.

To put code where my mouth is, a first cut implementation, which I happily place in the public domain, is at ​https://gist.github.com/1453629. I'm happy to iterate on it, given feedback.

[Carl Meyer]

Hi, and thanks for the contribution.

Generally, the leaning has been towards making contrib smaller, not larger, and the bar for adding something is quite high - it has to be the de facto standard implementation of a very common pattern. Although this middleware could be quite useful, I don't think it meets the bar for contrib. Fortunately, there's an active ecosystem of third-party reusable Django libraries, installable with ​pip from ​the Python Package Index, and I think this would fit right in to that larger ecosystem. I'd encourage you to package it up, put it on PyPI, and see if it gains some traction.

Thanks again!

[Aymeric Augustin]

​http://djangosnippets.org/ is also a good place to upload such utilities.