Action Dispatch RequestId

Makes a unique request id available to the action_dispatch.request_id env variable (which is then accessible through ActionDispatch::Request#request_id or the alias ActionDispatch::Request#uuid) and sends the same id to the client via the X-Request-Id header.

The unique request id is either based on the X-Request-Id header in the request, which would typically be generated by a firewall, load balancer, or the web server, or, if this header is not available, a random uuid. If the header is accepted from the outside world, we sanitize it to a max of 255 chars and alphanumeric and dashes only.

The unique request id can be used to trace a request end-to-end and would typically end up being part of log files from multiple pieces of the stack.

Methods

Class Public methods

new(app, header:)

📝 Source code
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb, line 25
    def initialize(app, header:)
      @app = app
      @header = header
      @env_header = "HTTP_#{header.upcase.tr("-", "_")}"
    end
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Instance Public methods

call(env)

📝 Source code
# File actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/request_id.rb, line 31
    def call(env)
      req = ActionDispatch::Request.new env
      req.request_id = make_request_id(req.get_header(@env_header))
      @app.call(env).tap { |_status, headers, _body| headers[@header] = req.request_id }
    end
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