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While you are generally right here I wonder how common this is with middlewares. Many have order dependencies and there are normally no loops involved. I don’t think I have come across this for middlewares at least. Kinda curious about the particular motivation here.

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Yeah I've been contemplating this with my own Datasette project recently: it doesn't have an official mechanism for "redispatch this request from the root again" but I've been tempted to add one.

My GraphQL plugin for example works by firing off internal requests against Datasette's REST API and I ended up needing some gnarly hacks to get authentication to work with that.

From my experience there are dragons if you try to make this work in general through a mechanism like that. I have only ever regretted this kind of stuff later when the interactions were not entirely clear.

I like this kind of mechanism (circuit-breaker) as a last ditch effort to prevent failures by then erroring out before it does more damage. I never made any good experiences with silently disabling stuff.

Yeah that was my understanding as well —- but I’m not a framework author so wasn’t sure if this was a common practice.

Trade-offs aside, I personally find the idea of re-running the request through the stack a bit hacky.

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