profiler_middleware.py

import cProfile
from cStringIO import StringIO
import os
import pstats
import tempfile

from django.conf import settings

class ProfilerMiddleware(object):
    def process_view(self, request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs):
        if settings.DEBUG and 'prof' in request.GET:
            self.profiler = cProfile.Profile()
            args = (request,) + callback_args
            return self.profiler.runcall(callback, *args, **callback_kwargs)

    def process_response(self, request, response):
        if settings.DEBUG and 'prof' in request.GET:
            (fd, self.profiler_file) = tempfile.mkstemp()
            self.profiler.dump_stats(self.profiler_file)
            out = StringIO()
            stats = pstats.Stats(self.profiler_file, stream=out)
            #stats.strip_dirs()          # Must happen prior to sort_stats
            if request.GET['prof']:
                stats.sort_stats(request.GET['prof'])
            stats.print_stats()
            os.unlink(self.profiler_file)
            response.content = '<pre>%s</pre>' % out.getvalue()
        return response