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rack_monkey_patch.rb

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Purpose

Heyre Be Dragyns.

For local development, the service middleware needs to know where other resource endpoints are in terms of HTTP host and port, so that remote inter-resource calls can work without up-front static configuration of service host/port data. To have to manage a fixed list of local development ports in the face of arbitrary resource endpoint divisions would be a big pain and cause developers much frustration.

This means that whenever a service starts up, it needs to know the HTTP host and port under which it is running, then tell the middleware about it.

In the absence of a formal interface in Rack for this, then we could do still that relatively nicely by looking up the Rack server in ObjectSpace and asking it for its options - except some of the web server adapters do really dumb things like “options.delete(:Host)” to read items out, destroying the info we need.

So instead, we have to monkey patch :-(

11-Nov-2014 (ADH): Split out from service_middleware.rb.
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