From 8101e7d7b0236e546030864a926a57e96769b045 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: FirstKlaas <klaas.nebuhr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:29:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Added a state property to the request opbject.

---
 responder/models.py     | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 tests/test_responder.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/responder/models.py b/responder/models.py
index 5d3695c..bbf8a97 100644
--- a/responder/models.py
+++ b/responder/models.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import yaml
 from requests.structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 from requests.cookies import RequestsCookieJar
 from starlette.datastructures import MutableHeaders
-from starlette.requests import Request as StarletteRequest
+from starlette.requests import Request as StarletteRequest, State
 from starlette.responses import (
     Response as StarletteResponse,
     StreamingResponse as StarletteStreamingResponse,
@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@ class Request:
         except AttributeError:
             return QueryDict({})
 
+    @property
+    def state(self) -> State:
+        """
+        Use the state to store additional information.
+        
+        This can be a very helpful feature, if you want to hand over
+        information from a middelware or a route decorator to the
+        actual route handler.
+
+        For example: ``request.state.time_started = time.time()`` 
+        """
+        return self._starlette.state
+
     @property
     async def encoding(self):
         """The encoding of the Request's body. Can be set, manually. Must be awaited."""
diff --git a/tests/test_responder.py b/tests/test_responder.py
index 7ef7c6f..259ff0f 100644
--- a/tests/test_responder.py
+++ b/tests/test_responder.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import requests
 import string
 import io
 
+from starlette.middleware.base import BaseHTTPMiddleware
 from starlette.responses import PlainTextResponse
 from starlette.testclient import TestClient as StarletteTestClient
 
@@ -886,3 +887,20 @@ def test_empty_req_text(api):
 
     r = api.requests.post("/")
     assert r.text == content
+
+    def test_api_request_state(api, url):
+        class StateMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
+            async def dispatch(self, request, call_next):
+                request.state.test1 = 42
+                request.state.test2 = "Foo"
+    
+                response = await call_next(request)
+                return response
+    
+        api.add_middleware(StateMiddleware)
+    
+        @api.route("/")
+        def home(req, resp):
+            resp.text = "{}_{}".format(req.state.test2, req.state.test1)
+    
+        assert api.requests.get(url("/")).text == "Foo_42"

From d73243ab60a00853480c58392906d0fbc9625888 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: FirstKlaas <klaas.nebuhr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 18:44:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Linting with black

---
 tests/test_responder.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_responder.py b/tests/test_responder.py
index 259ff0f..2debc2b 100644
--- a/tests/test_responder.py
+++ b/tests/test_responder.py
@@ -893,14 +893,14 @@ def test_empty_req_text(api):
             async def dispatch(self, request, call_next):
                 request.state.test1 = 42
                 request.state.test2 = "Foo"
-    
+
                 response = await call_next(request)
                 return response
-    
+
         api.add_middleware(StateMiddleware)
-    
+
         @api.route("/")
         def home(req, resp):
             resp.text = "{}_{}".format(req.state.test2, req.state.test1)
-    
+
         assert api.requests.get(url("/")).text == "Foo_42"