Question

I am using django-pagination and django-sorting together for one of my views. Both these have custom middleware to sort and paginate. So is the order of middleware important in this case?

Answer 1

In this case the order is not important:

• django-pagination looks for a variable page and
• django-sorting looks for sort and dir variables.

So both just populate the request object with their variables. If eg some of these required the django.auth framework, order matters: the auth-using framework must come after ‘django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware’ etc.

Django middleware classes are easily read, so looking at the source, helps a lot 🙂 understanding what is going on.